Re: Apple II 256K Memory Expansion Kit

["Payton Byrd" <plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 8OSdnbj3NeDWE3nYnZ2dnUVZ_uCinZ2d@comcast.com">news:8OSdnbj3NeDWE3nYnZ2dnUVZ_uCinZ2d@comcast.com...
> Peter Watson wrote:
>> <heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message 
>> 1172397475.803640.22900@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com">news:1172397475.803640.22900@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> 
>>>The "slinky" card is a "normal" expansion card with up to 1MB (AFAIK).
>>>Used mostly as a ramdisk or for Appleworks. It has its own firmware.
>>>I guess it's called "slinky" because its a long and slim card.
>>>I read that they may be used with a GS but I haven't tried that.
>> 
>> 
>> This and other thoughts about the reason for the "Slinky" name may well be 
>> correct, but the starting point is that it was the internal development code 
>> name for the card.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> And the "rationale" is as likely to be that the engineer working on
> it really liked Slinkys (or had a girlfriend called "Slinky" ;-).
> 
> Apple is unusual in that lots of internal code names seem to get
> public.  In most companies, no one outside ever learns the internal
> names of projects (and in some cases, it would be quite embarrassing).
> 
> 

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