Kind of hopping in in the middle of an ongoing discussion that I haven't been following, but:
> On Aug 25, 2020, at 10:51 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Q: although WE call it "Apple I", did the Steves call it "Apple I" or "Apple > Computer"? > The answer tells us whether they were explicitly planning on making other > models later! > Wikipedia (a terrible choice of citation in anything DISPUTED) says that the > '1' came later, and says that the first demonstration was by Woz at the Palo > Alto Homebrew Computer Club. (Started by Gordon French and Fred Moore, with > Lee Felsenstein soon after) > > > For example, what we call "TRS80 Model 1" was NOT called "Model 1" until the > "Model 2" (and then 3) was announced > What we call "World War 1" was not called "1", nor even "World War", until > "World War 2" was obvious. > What we call "single density" was not called "single density" until MFM was > developed, and the MARKETING people called MFM "double density". The circuit boards say "Apple Computer 1" on them. So they had the optimistic "1" in the name originally. -Paul
