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). -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."