On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:18:03PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> Check this out:
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:42:57 +0000
> From: Ade Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "(void)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: (void) Alan Turing
>
> Alan Turing committed suicide by poisoning an apple with
> cyanide and taking a bite from it.
>
> The original Apple logo was designed as a mark of respect
> to Turing. The rainbow is the universal sign of gay
> freedom, the bite from the apple representing the bite
> that Alan took.
>
> --
> // Ade.
>
> I think that was a very nice gesture on their part.
I think that it's not true...
nice thought, but I've never heard this before (and I'm an apple user
from *way* back), and I think the original (unused) logo, featuring
Newton argues against this (as a primary motivation for the logo,
anyway... I'm not saying *noone* was thinking this...)
Different version of logo origin can be found at
http://apple2history.org/a/ah04.html
dha
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