Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!tjc From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: naming Apple Keywords: Jobs & Lennon & Turing Message-ID: <5129@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 12 Jul 90 11:08:10 GMT References: <22871@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <44704@brunix.UUCP> <451@6sceng.UUCP> Reply-To: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software Lines: 14 I dunno if this story is true or not but it's kinda interesting. The Apple Logo (so I am told) is meant to represent the apple that Alan Turing used to commit suicide with. Hence the bite out of the side. Has anyone else heard this? Tony p.s. If you don't know who Alan Turing is you shouldn't be using a computer :-)p -- Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk If a man among you has no sin upon his hand Let him throw a stone at me for playing in the band.