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My favorite part: Instead of typing a sequence of commands on the computer keyboard; the user merely points to tiny "icons" or commands on the screen by sliding the "mouse" (a plastic control box the size of a cigarette pack) on the desktop beside the computer. As the mouse rolls, an arrow called a cursor moves across the screen. To erase obsolete information, for example, the user moves the mouse to point first at w…
My favorite part: Instead of typing a sequence of commands on the computer keyboard; the user merely points to tiny "icons" or commands on the screen by sliding the "mouse" (a plastic control box the size of a cigarette pack) on the desktop beside the computer. As the mouse rolls, an arrow called a cursor moves across the screen. To erase obsolete information, for example, the user moves the mouse to point first at w…
What's a cigarette pack? /s
> Jobs personally heads the MacIntosh development team MacIntosh :)
That (or McIntosh) is the correct spelling for the fruit breed (though not the clan name from which it descends). I don't know at what point Apple settled on its non-standard spelling for the product, but it might well have been after this article was written.
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/flashback-1984-apple-...
> Jobs personally heads the MacIntosh development team MacIntosh :)
That (or McIntosh) is the correct spelling for the fruit breed (though not the clan name from which it descends). I don't know at what point Apple settled on its non-standard spelling for the product, but it might well have been after this article was written.
My favorite part: Instead of typing a sequence of commands on the computer keyboard; the user merely points to tiny "icons" or commands on the screen by sliding the "mouse" (a plastic control box the size of a cigarette pack) on the desktop beside the computer. As the mouse rolls, an arrow called a cursor moves across the screen. To erase obsolete information, for example, the user moves the mouse to point first at w…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> MacIntosh :) They'll probably program it in "C", and then in the 1990s move on to JAVA, with some software in PERL.
I think the Lisa was programmed in Pascal
Or JAVA and Java.
Or PERL and Perl.
One wonders how many people are, right this very moment, writing code in C# because they fail to see a difference between C# and C++...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That (or McIntosh) is the correct spelling for the fruit breed (though not the clan name from which it descends). I don't know at what point Apple settled on its non-standard spelling for the product, but it might well have been after this article was written.
Steve Jobs could not get trademark on McIntosh but was able to negotiate for Macintosh https://www.soundandvision.com/content/flashback-1984-apple-...
Edited to add from wikipedia:
“Apple Inc. employee Jef Raskin named the Macintosh line of personal computers after the McIntosh. He deliberately misspelled the name to avoid conflict with the hi-fi equipment manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory. Apple's attempt in 1982 to trademark the name Macintosh was nevertheless denied due to the phonetic similarity between Apple's product and the name of the hi-fi manufacturer. Apple licensed the rights to the name in 1983, and bought the trademark in 1986.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)#Cultural_sign...