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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: naming Apple
Keywords: Jobs & Lennon
Message-ID: <14004@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 02:31:07 GMT
References: <22871@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <44704@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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>In article <22871@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>, schatz@cs.arizona.edu (Bruce
>Schatz) writes:
>|>One thing I've always wondered about is the genesis of the company name for
>|>Apple Computer.  The books I've read about the computer all say that Steven
>|>Jobs had fond memories of working in an orchard one summer and thought that
>|>Apple would be a friendly sounding name.... Anyone know the "true" story?

Well, as Steve Wozniak remembered it, as they were forming their new
business to market this computer that they built, they we in the process of
filling out paperwork to get their license and so on. Amoung many names
that were trying to come up with at CRUNCH time, they picked Apple. One of
the reasons was that 'Apple' will preceeded 'Atari' in the phone book.



 
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