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From: xxx612@unh.UUCP (Paul A. Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Use of "-land"  :^)
Message-ID: <363@unh.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 02:01:01 GMT
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Organization: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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In article <8595@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>, merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant) writes:

> Actually, the way I heard it, Computerland was sueing Businessland for the use
> of "land" at the end of their name.  The judge through the case out,
> commenting "Who are you going to sue next?  Disneyland?"

True, too true. Here's another you may not have heard: the first few
ComputerLands were called "Computer Shacks." (Check some old back
issues of BYTE, around '77.) But--guess who--Tandy put its lawyers on
the phone, and within the blink of an eye, ComputerLand was born
instead.

Oh, and this shouldn't be in this newsgroup. Or anywhere, probably. Sorry.

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