moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (12/13/85)
I got this rumor off of a local B-Board, so take it with a pound of salt:
According to the poster, an Article in the Wall Street Journal (or perhaps
an ad there) had the headline "FREE MAC UPGRADE!" Under it, it said that
John Sculley has authorized that anyone can bring their Mac into a local
Apple Service Center and, for free...
...have Steve Jobs signiture ground off the inside cover of the Mac.
Could someone confirm/deny this? I really doubt it, because it strikes me
as bad P.R.; however, if it's true, the term "weenie" comes to mind in
association with Apple and Sculley. I've approved of most of Sculley's
moves since he took over, but really, Jobs did so much for the design and
construction of the Mac, any move of this type would be pure spite.
"A man who has no business being anyone's role model..."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace) (12/14/85)
In article <2504@colossus.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes: >blah ... blah ... >John Sculley has authorized that anyone can bring their Mac into a local >Apple Service Center and, for free... > >...have Steve Jobs signiture ground off the inside cover of the Mac. > I understand Sculley will PAY you $10 if you will engrave his name in place of Jobs. :-) While we are on the subject of rumors... If Apple really does 'redesign' the Macintosh so it runs MS-DOS (DOSMac ?) and UNIX (UniMac ?), will it run the current Mac programs? It would make the upgrade to the newer more powerful Mac a definite possibility (incredibility possible, if not more possible) for some of us.
werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (12/14/85)
> ...have Steve Jobs signiture ground off the inside cover of the Mac.
Actually, I think this is a funny comment about the "new case" that's
supposed to be included with the board-swap/upgrade rumoured for January.
I would be surprised if there were *ANY* signatures inside ....kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) (12/17/85)
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I don't know about that. WE haven't heard anything directly from Apple
about removel of Jobs' signature from the inside of Mac's. There ARE
signatures on the back inside cover of the Mac. However, Jobs' scribble
would be a little hard to file off. Not that I'd want to do it, but
someone might...
kamath@reed.UUCP
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And the monster was me...johnm@well.UUCP (john markoff) (12/25/85)
Hey, just another Apple rumor: A friend of mine (who shall remain unnamed) has been busily taking apart the new Mac Plus ROM and among lots of goodies guess what he found? 68020 instructions! s