Originally posted by Jet
The guy who invented the first computer (or maybe it was the first personal computer [can't remember]) but he committed suicide by taking a bite out of an arsenic inlaced macintosh apple so thats why the apple logo has a bite taken out of it and why they named most of thier computers "Macintosh"
I'll never be able to look at the shiny Apple logo on my 17 inch iMac in the same way ever again..
Originally posted by Gregita
Has Apple paid Apple Corp. royalties all these years?
"Macintosh" was the internal code name for Apple's inexpensive GUI-based computer during its development. At the time, Apple used the names of apple varieties for its internal code names. By the time the new computer was ready for sale, the code name had already been widely publicized. Apple kept the code name as the brand for the shipping product.Originally posted by PHARAOHk
Why are some of the Apple lines called Macintosh? I am thinking there is some cool story. Also what does the i infront of everything mean. You know like ical and imovies etc.
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Originally posted by Saitama
According to Steven Levy in his book "Insanely Great" (pg 109), "...Macintosh was Jef Raskin's baby. He even named it. Raskin believed that bestowing a woman's name on a computer was a sexist act, ... The Macintosh apple was Raskin's favorite, and thus worthy of being a working code name... after some deft negotiating with the McDonald's fast-food chain on the status of trade names prefixed 'Mac," it became the computer's true name."