Re: McIntosh <=> MacIntosh

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From: Brian Diehm
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1987 17:31

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>>...an Apple McIntosh... (where did they ever come up with MacIntosh
>>anyway? Is the spelling of the edible type of apple copyrighted? :-)
>
>I've seen an early "Mac" description that said "McIntosh" (McIntosh, as
>in the edible apple)  since this later changed to "MacIntosh" (As in
>the raincoat), one must wonder.  Apple computer selling Apples, yes.
>Raincoats, no.

Early Macintosh documentation used to say that Apple, the Apple logo, etc.,
were trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. BUT, they stated that "Macintosh is
a trademark LICENSED TO Apple Computer, Inc." (emphasis mine).

However, later documents have dropped that and claimed Macintosh in with Apple
and the rest of it as trademarks of Apple Computer directly. Apparently their
lawyers convinced themselves that they now had a standard of recognition or
something...

References - early, MacWrite manual copyright 1984. Later, Macintosh SE manual,
copyright 1987.

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
briand@tekig4.TEK.COM   or  {decvax,cae780,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!briand

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