These ads are from Stereo Review magazine, somewhere between 1989 and 1991. I tossed out all of my old stereo magazines several years ago, but recently found a stack of pages I tore out and kept in a folder.
If someone can tell me how to clean or fix my old scanner I'd appreciate it. It's a 10 year old Epson SCSI (scuzzy) Scanner hooked up to an old and spare Windows 98SE computer.
Early Apple employee Jef Raskin had a favorite apple. It was the McIntosh--but since that was also the name of a manufacturer of high-end audio equipment, he bestowed the new computer he was spearheading with an intentionally misspelled code name: Macintosh. He figured that would sidestep any trademark problems.
He figured wrong: The McIntosh loudspeaker folks weren't thrilled with the prospect of a similar-sounding computer, despite a letter Steve Jobs wrote them: "We have become very attached to the name Macintosh. Much like one's own child, our product has developed a very definite personality." According to Apple historian Owen Linzmayer, the computer company and the audio company struck a licensing deal in March 1983; early Mac ads include a credit for McIntosh Labs.
In 1986, Apple paid McIntosh a fee--how much remains a secret to this day--for permanent rights to the name "Macintosh." Twenty-three years later, the computers and the fancy audio gear continue to coexist.
