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deater | 5 months ago

quite possible because it's from Europe, but remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed.

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Someone|5 months ago

> remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed.

Did they? AFAIK, Apple always used “Plus”, not “+” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus, https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documenta...), and “+” is shorthand invented by the community.

The Macintosh Plus, similarly, wasn’t a Macintosh+ in Apple’s marketing, AFAIK.

And, looking at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500#Amiga_500_Plus, it doesn’t look like Commodore stuck + on the end of their model names, either.

zamalek|5 months ago

I think that many companies have been appending + to the end of product names for an extremely long time. This is hardly an Apple innovation.

bigiain|5 months ago

Next you're gonna try and tell me that Apple didn't invent the mobile phone. Or the portable MP3 player. Or the windowing GUI.

whyenot|5 months ago

I think it actually was an Apple innovation, at least for {hobbyist, home, personal} computers. I did some digging and wasn't able to find anything before the Apple II+ in 1979. Please do prove me wrong, though!