According to XXL: >The Macintosh trade name is also not Apple Computers property. Apple paid >McIntosh Labs of Binghamton, NY (they make the hi-end audio equipment with >the distinctive black glass face plates) $3 million for a license to use the >trade name Macintosh. >-Joel That's amazing. All this time it was based on the apples [as in fruit on trees of the same name]. I must be pretty 'out of it', as the last McIntosh stereo I saw was that brushed aluminum, or some metal, faceplate...so they went blackface, too? I think i need to shop more. Window shop, or something. ~flipper