At 13:05 +1000 on 15/08/01, Dana Sibera wrote:
>>>>> One of my coworkers is building a PC with an
>>>>> ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Visible as part of the box
>>>>> art is a corner of that PowerMac that had the floppy
>>>>> drive on the left side!
>>>>
>>>> You mean the 4400?
>>>
>>> or a 7220 here in oz (among a couple of other places apparently)
>>
>> Now for the real Mac-head trivia test:
>>
>> *why* was it sold as the 7220 in the Asian market?
>
>I'd go with the superstition thing? I know 8's are a very lucky thing,
>and I -think- 4 (or 44) is the unlucky number.
Yep, got it. Mostly because 4 is an extremely superstitiously unlucky
number in China (and probably other East Asian cultures as well). Thus
"4400" wouldn't have gone over well in the market there...
Good thing Apple had some folks on their feet in the Apple Asia marketing
division. GM once made the famous booboo of selling the Chevy Nova in
Mexico. Those of you who know Spanish will immediately remember that "no
va" means "doesn't go" in Spanish. No word on what happened to the
corporate veep who approved THAT decision...
>could have renamed it an 8800... :)
>
>Did 6800's exist btw? I do tech support for state schools, and some have
Not as a Mac model. As others have mentioned, they existed as a CPU line
(as well as the much more common 68000 series).
p
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