I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.~Jay Gould

the original apple

by: hhex65

Wed Oct 12, 2011 at 00:00:47 AM MST

I just remembered that Apple was this "Beatles" company, a multi-armed multimedia corporation, a conglomerate. It included "Apple Electronics" which was intended to revolutionize the consumer electronics market-- but it did not.

And weird that Apple Corp still exists! I didn't know that. Apparently the BEATLES' "rock band guitar hero" video game package was theirs. Furthermore...

In 1978, Apple Records filed suit against Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) for trademark infringement. The suit was settled in 1981 with the payment of $80,000 to Apple Corps. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed to stay out of the music business.

The other Apple didn't stay out of the music business. I seem to remember thinking that the US computer Apple was the same thing as the Beatles' Apple back in the late-70s/early-80s (to me that is an "era"-- one that is not officially recognized although it is the time of the origin of our current condition.) I didn't really pay close attention to corporations then. And anyways, the computer I had was an Atari game console that you could run BASIC on. I fell asleep on that thing more times than I care to count.

I don't know, you probably already knew all this. I can't keep up with the vast array of babyboomer hi-jinks. Makes me dizzy just wondering if it is history or still the present day.

hhex65 :: the original apple