Somebody has a C65 on eBay

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Oct 7 19:50:29 1998

I wrote:
> It certainly didn't officially have the name 'Apple VI' (or Apple 6), but
> it is obvious that marketing viewed it that way, since they were responsible
> for assigning the product codes.

Sam replied:
> Or they simply needed to fit the Lisa product line into their existing
> numbering system, and arbitrarily chose A6.

Yes, it may have been entirely arbitrary. More likely, some other projects
were assigned the A4 and A5 numbers. However, my point was that no matter how
'6' happened to be chosen, from a marketing point of view that made it an
Apple 6.

Based on your reasoning, you could just as easily claim that the Pentium 60
was not really an 80501. After all, Intel never used the '80501' number
in big print in their advertising.

Eric
Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 19:50:29 BST