Bell & Howell making Apples?

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Mon Oct 13 17:50:17 1997

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Alan Richards wrote:

> A friend of mine showed me a picture today in one of her text books of
> kids using what appeared to be Apple]['s (or Apple//e's, it was a bad
> picture). However, the name plate on the machines were visible, and they
> said Bell & Howell. The same for the disk drives, which were obviously
> Disk]['s. Did Apple license Bell & Howell to make these machines? If they
> did, did they license other companies as well?

Yes and they were all black. I don't think Apple ever licensed the design
to any other company, and I'm surprised that they even licensed it at all.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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