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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Mac II differences
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.220028.12059@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 22:00:28 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1992Aug19.232232.21312@math.ucla.edu> <20870@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <BtB74q.1LF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BtB74q.1LF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tinsel@uiuc.edu writes:
- >jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) writes:
- >
- >> One other thing, and this is a major pet peeve of mine. Apple used to make
- >> computers called Apple ][+, ][c, etc., however, they now make machines called
- >> Macintosh IIsi, IIci, LCII, etc. Notice? It's "II", as in two capital 'i's.
- >> NO stylized ']['. Please! Write it the correct way! I don't like to think
- >> of my IIsi as a ][c on steroids!
- >
- >I wouldn't even mention this, but you brought it up first. That should be
- >``//c'' not ``][c''. The last apple that used the square brackets in its
- >name was the Apple ][+. The correct names are:
- >
- >Apple ][, Apple ][+, Apple //e, Apple //c, Apple IIGS, Apple IIc Plus.
- >
- >The "GS" is in small caps, to screw up people who type it in ASCII, and the
- >//e later was called the IIe.
-
- The //e was always "//e" on the case and in the literature. The
- earliest "//e"s displayed "APPLE ][" on the screen, whereas the
- enhanced version displayed "Apple //e".
-
- The Apple III was the III, but I think the Apple three plus was '///+'.
-
- And there is no Mac III -- they skipped right to four, but called them
- Quadra just to evade embarrasing questions :-).
-
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