Origin of company names Apple & Atari - verify?

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Thu May 8 22:46:26 1997

On Thu, 8 May 1997 marcw_at_lightside.com wrote:

> Anyhind in today's list they had "'Why' behind the names"
> The reason for certain names of companies/items.
>
> Apple - desire to be before "Atari" in the phone book.
> Atari - to look like a Japanese company
>
> Does anyone know if these reasons are true? Sounds funny but then
> we really don't know how/why certain names are chosen.

Rumor has it Steve Jobs was eating an Apple when they decided to name
their company. I think this rumor was debunked, but the real story
eludes me.

I believe the one behind Atari...where the hell else would you get a name
like that? I think Atari is a cool name though.

Sam
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