On 6 Oct 1998, Eric Smith wrote:
> Enormous free time? I wish I had that. Before Apple switched to their
> current marketing product numbering scheme
>
> <letter><four digits><two letters>[/<two letters>]
>
> their original product numbering was of the form
>
> A<digit><letter><four digits>
>
> where the first digit was the computer model it was related to, and the
> letter designated the type of product. For instance, A2Dxxxx was software
> on diskette for the Apple ][, A2Mxxxx was a manual for the Apple ][ or related
> products, and IIRC the computers themselves were A2Cxxxx. For the Apple ///
> products, the first digit was three. For Lisa products, it was 6. For
> some cross-platform products it was 9.
I don't think this indicates that the Lisa was unofficially the Apple VI.
I think its simply the product group Apple deicded to put the Lisa into.
I think what happened to A4 and A5 is that Apple probably planned some
products that would adopt those group numbers but they never materialized.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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