on 8/14/01 2:30 AM, the pickle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 19:04 +0000 on 13/08/01, Alex Allee wrote:
>
>> I found a page of Apple code names, which had this to say:
>>
>> "Performa 600: Brazil 32, Mac IIvm (Consumer testing showed that users
>> thought "vm" was an abbreviation for "virtual memory," so the model
>> became the Performa 600.)"
>
> Got a URL for that page?
>
> Must be an early-production P600 that didn't have its ROM "fixed" with the
> new model name...
Yep.
<http://home.earthlink.net/~monarch1/moof/>
Or perhaps it was a test machine that got leaked. Might explain the lack of
badging on the outside... Anyone got a P600 to test that actually says
Performa 600 in About this Macintosh? Maybe they all (at least early
versions) say IIvm.
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