Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lemon Camera
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:13:26 -0800

D Khong wrote:
><Snip> 
> I my part of the woods, the pineapple is an auspicious fruit because its
> name in one of the Chinese dialects would mean "Prosperity Comes". However,
> nobody would put Pineapple Co as the name of a shop because the
> significance of the pineapple in relation to prosperity is in the manner of
> speech only.
> 
> How did Apple come about in computers?
> 
> Dan K.
Anyone interested in my guess which that it was meant to represent the ultimate
in temptations as in the Biblical?
Mark Rabiner
And it starts with A.