Re: FORD,GM,DODGE

["Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@gcstation.net>]

Hi, Mitchell!

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote in article
<19SEP199608531503@vax2.concordia.ca>...
> In article ralphp@gcstation.net (Ralph Wade Phillips) writes...
> 
> >        Apple Computers, Inc. NEVER made Apple Computers.  They made the
> >Apple I, the Apple ][, the Apple ][+, the Apple ///, the Apple ///+, the
> ^^^^^^^^
> 
> >[snip] But, they NEVER made a computer named "Apple Computer" or 
> >"Apple Computers".
> 
>     Yes they did, you listed it above. The computer kit sold by Wozinak
> and Jobs in 1976, through the Byte Shop, was indeed called the "Apple
> Computer" (or simply the "Apple"). Once the Apple II and Apple III were
> produced, people logically referred back to it as the Apple I. 

	Hmmm ... What I was told (this is HEARSAY, mind you!) by John Cranor and
Gabe Varela (both from Apple) was that the original Apple was known as an
"Apple I" to both Steves (Jobs and Wozniak), since they already had plans
for a SECOND computer.  But, that doesn't matter.

	Let's say that the original was just an "Apple Computer".  By that, Brian
is STILL wrong, since they quit making the Apple 1 to make room for the
Apple ][ back in ... 1976?  Wasn't that when it was introduced?  In any
case, even his prized Apple ][whatever wouldn't qualify.

	My main point was that he was being more than slightly nasty to someone
who could EASILY make the mistake of posting Macintosh questions into csa2.

> 
>     The same is more or less true of movies titles whose producers hadn't

> concieved a sequel release. Take for example "Star Trek: The Motion
Picture" 
> (circa 1979) which was later called "Star Trek 1" by fans. The same is
true 
> of Lord British's Ultima "1" game. Or an example closer to home, the
original 
> Apple IIgs ROM didn't have an official label, but became known as "ROM
00" 
> after Apple introduced the "ROM 01" firmware (I could be mistaken, I'm
not 
> sure if Apple referred to it as "00" in September 1986).

	It did in the SERVICE books ... <B-)  But the name was "REV A", not "ROM
00".  Later, when ROM 01 came out, the original became known as "ROM 00",
alright.

> 
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca
>

	RwP