Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ag4 From: ag4@pucc-h (Angus Greiswald the fourth) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.mac,net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Rather interesting coincidence(?) (trivia) Message-ID: <1593@pucc-h> Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 13:17:30 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1593 Posted: Sat Dec 22 13:17:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 03:55:16 EST References: <1181@trwrba.UUCP> <167@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: your service Lines: 19 > In article <1181@trwrba.UUCP> ssimpson@trwrba.UUCP (Scott W. Simpson) writes: > > > > Was watching Get Smart this morning and I noticed something > >interesting. Max and the chief were exchanging code words at the door > >so the chief could get in a room. Max said, "What's the code?" and the > >chief replied, "You say Apple and I say Macintosh." Hmmmm..... > This seems like a rather amazing coincidence... anyone have an explanation > at Apple? Sorry if I'm not from Apple, but it's really not as much a coincidence as it sounds. You see, a macintosh (however it is really spelled) is just a type of apple - whence came the name for Apple's Mac. Kinda neat, huh. -- Jeff Lewis vvvvvvvvvvvv {decvax|ucbvax|allegra|seismo|harpo|teklabs|ihnp4}!pur-ee!lewie ^^^^^^^^^^^^