[comp.sys.next] NEWS FLASH: NYTimes

jgrace@bbn.com (Joe Grace) (11/18/88)

Excerpt from:

THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1988

page C3

  The Evolution of Frog:
  Flash and Whimsy

  ...
    Commonly known as Frog, the company, founded in Altensteig,
  West Germany, in 1969 by Hartmut Esslinger, drew
  its name from the green television set that was on of the firm's
  first designs.  Since then, the company has designed
  some of the splashiest products around, including,
  clockwise from top left, an inductive iron for the elderly,
  "Wondervision" for children and a home computer printer and
  fax machine for the blind.  [***] It also designed the hardware
  for Steven Jobs's new computer, Next. [***]
    ...

Is Frog on the net?  Could someone from Frog comment on the PLA's in
the NeXT? 

:-) :-) :-)

= Joe =
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jgrace@bbn.com (Joe Grace) (11/19/88)

I just received an e-mail message taking (my belief in) the NYTimes
article quoted in my posting seriously.  So, to avoid starting any
vicious rumors,

  The NYTimes article (verbatim quoted in my posting) was inaccurate
  in that Frog designed the sexy, black, magnesium case for the
  NeXT computer but *NOT* the >>>computer<<< "hardware".
  
Whew!  By the way, this article was primarily about fashion and
design and not business or technology, so the confusion could
be forgiven (but not overlooked :-).

Note: ":-)" means levity as in laughs and smiles.  And the 3 smiley
faces in my original posting denoted much levity. 

Cheers,

= Joe =

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