[OT] Re: [Ti] Origin

[Erik Gaderlund]

At 10:03 PM -0800 11/20/04, Steve Wozniak wrote:
>At 5:46 PM -0500 2004.11.20, John Griffin wrote:
>
>>Why don't we ask our resident expert on things Apple. Steve Wozniak, please
>>shed some light on this...
>>
>>Or has Steve disappeared from our list?
>
>I'm not the last source on this but I was around in the early days 
>with this project and was told that it was taken from the McIntosh 
>Apple. I didn't know of this type of Apple and only later heard that 
>it was misspelled. I was never sure what to believe, whether it was 
>deliberately misspelled as I think Jeff Raskin has said, or was an 
>accidental misspelling.
>--

I've also heard that it was also partially in homage to the high-end 
audio manufacturer McIntosh, from back in the day.  Maybe the 
'misspelling' is a trademark issue?

erik g