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- From: "Brian S. Kendig" <bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 20:24:11 EDT
- Subject: The Macintosh Secret Code-Name List
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- The latest revision of The Macintosh Secret Code-Name List,
- a list of the names Macs had before they had names.
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- The Macintosh Secret Code-Name List
- compiled by Brian Kendig (bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
- Third revision, 16 April 1992.
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- Please report corrections to me, no matter how insignificant!
- You may (of course!) distribute this information freely,
- but please keep my name on this list if you pass it around whole.
- New info about codenames will be attributed and very much appreciated.
-
- "Code-name" is my term for the names that machines and software get
- before they are released with `official' names. A special subdivision
- of Apple has the sole responsibility of naming everything Apple makes,
- but until they make up their minds, the developer engineers have to
- call their gizmos _something_ while they're working on them...
-
- These names really aren't that important any more, but some of the
- names are amusing and interesting, and they might help you think up a
- pet name for your new Macintosh.
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- Apple III: Sara
- Apple IIGS: Cortland
- Macintosh Plus: Mr. T
- Macintosh SE: Z^2, PlusPlus, Aladdin, Freeport, Maui, Chablis
- Macintosh SE/30: Green Jade
- Macintosh Classic: X.O.
- Macintosh Classic II: Montana, Apollo
- Macintosh LC: Elsie
- Macintosh LC II: Foster Farms
- Macintosh II: Milwaukee, Ikki, Reno, Becks, Paris, Cabernet, Jonathon
- Macintosh IIx: Spock
- Macintosh IIsi: Erickson (sp?), Raffica, Raffika
- Macintosh IIcx: Aurora I, Atlantic (in an aborted 16-MHz configuration)
- Macintosh IIci: Aurora II, Pacific
- Macintosh IIfx: F-16, Stealth, F-19, Blackbird, Zone 5
- Macintosh Portable: Esprit, Malibu, Laguna
- Portable w/backlight: Aruba
- PowerBook 100: Asahi, Derringer, Rosebud
- PowerBook 140: TIM LC, TIM Lite
- PowerBook 170: TIM
- Quadra 700: Shadow (shadow of 900), Spike (gonna spike NeXT), IIce
- Quadra 900: Darwin, Eclipse (going to eclipse the NeXT), IIex
- RISC machine: Roman, Zorro [not released yet]
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- Finder: Furnishings 2000 (a defunct bay area furniture store)
- Multifinder: Juggler, Twitcher
- System 6.0.4: Antares
- System 6.0.5: Big Deal
- System 7: Big Bang, M80, Pleiades
- System 7.0.1: Road Warrior (in reference to PowerBooks), Beta Cheese
- 32-bit Quickdraw: Jackson Pollack
- Edition Manager: Diet Coke
- Layer Manager: Glass Plus
- Data Access Manager: SnarfMan
- AppleScript: Cheez Whiz [not released yet]
- Sound Manager: DJ, Party Line
- TrueType: Bass (for Bass-o-matic)
- QuickTime: Project Warhol (an early version, the `warhol' init,
- had the icon of a Campbell's soup can)
- AppleShare 3.0: Holy Hand Grenade
- (The System 7 File Sharing Extension's creator is
- 'hhgg', which might be from this but also seems to
- refer to the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".)
- FileShare: Killer Rabbit (Lots of Python fans work for Apple...)
- ATalk Remote Access: 976
- speech recognition: Casper [not released yet]
- text retrieval: Reporter [not released yet]
- pen-based computer: Newton [not released yet]
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- Apple IIGS video cards: Gumby, Pokey
- (one of these became the Video Overlay Card)
- Macintosh Plus keybd: Nimitz
- Apple Extended keybd: Saratoga
- (because it's the size of an aircraft carrier;
- prototypes were adorned with small model aircraft)
- Apple 400Mb hard drive: Eagle
- StyleWriter: Tabasco
- LaserWriter LS: Nike
- LaserWriter IIf: Kirin Dry
- LaserWriter IIg: Kirin
- Apple Two-Page Display: Kong
- Apple OneScanner: HalfDome
- Apple ISDN NuBus Card: CarCraft
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- Apple File Exchange: Renault
- HyperCard: WildCard (hence the creator code 'WILD')
- HyperCard 2.0: Snow
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- ??? Red Jade
- ??? Blue Jade
- ??? Gold Jade
- something in the Unix group: Tylenol
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- Macintosh 128k ROMs (in the Plus and below) had chip codes which began
- with the letters L and H and were therefore nicknamed appropriately
- (for example, "Lonely Hearts"), while the chip codes of the
- 32-bit-wide CPUs use the letters A, B, C, D ("Ala Baster Can Delabra").
-
- The Apple Developer CD's also have interesting names:
- Volume 1: Phil and Dave's Excellent CD
- Volume 2: Phil and Dave's Excellent CD (Release Version)
- Volume 3: A Disc Called Wanda
- Volume 4: Discy Business (The Real One)
- Volume 5: Night of the Living Disc
- Volume 6: Gorillas in the Disc
- Volume 7: Lord of the Files
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- Thanks to J. D. Sterling Babcock, Chris Barrus, John Cavallino, Philip
- Craig, Christopher Davis, Jeff Fritz, Pascal Gosselin, John Kono,
- Benjamin Kuo, Mark Lanett, Michael Newbery, Alberto Ricci, Matthew
- Russotto, Mike Steiner, Ed Tecot, tim@bio.aukuni.ac.nz, Evan Torrie,
- Mark Wilkins, and Dean Yu for the information here.
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