32-bit QuickDraw: Jackson Pollock (named after the late American painter
famous for using splashy colors in his work)

32-bit ROMs for Mac II: Squeaky (as in "squeaky clean" since earlier
ROMs were considered "dirty" because they didn't properly use all 32
bits)

A/UX 2.0: Perestroika, Space Cadet

A/UX 3.0: Hulk Hogan

Adobe Acrobat: Houdini

Apple 12" RGB Monitor: Mai Tai

Apple 16" Color Monitor: Goldfish

Apple Color StyleWriter Pro: Logo

Apple File Exchange: Renault

Apple Font Pack: Big Sur

Apple Freedom Network: Frogger

Apple Guide: Reno

Apple Hard Disk 400SC: Eagle

Apple IIc: E.T. (exterterrestrial), IIb (for book-sized), IIp (for
portable), Pippin, VLC (Very Low Cost), Elf, Yoda, Teddy (short for
Testing Every Day), Chels, Jason, Lollie, Sherry, Zelda (the children of
team members)

Apple IIe: Diana, LCA (Low Cost Apple), Super II

Apple IIGS Video Overlay Card: Gumby, Pokey

Apple IIGS: Cortland, Phoenix (because the project had been revived
after being cancelled), Rambo (when the design team was fighting for
final approval from the executive staff), Gumby (from an impersonation
done at Apple's Halloween parade)

Apple III: Sara (after the daughter of chief engineer Wendell Sander)

Apple IIx (abandoned): Dove, Brooklyn, Golden Gate (referring to the
ability to make it a bridge between the Apple II and Mac)

Apple Internet Connection Kit: Cyberpup (a hurried stripped-down version
of Cyberdog)

Apple Keyboard II: Elmer

Apple OneScanner: Half-Dome, Ping-Pong

Apple Two-Page Monochrome Monitor: Fred, Kong (its colossal size is
reminiscent of King Kong)

AppleScript 1.0: Cheeze Whiz, Toy Surprise, Gustav

AppleScript 1.1: Guava Surprise, Pure Guava

AppleSearch: Bogart

AppleTalk Internet Router: North (as in Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North
who routed Iranian arms sale proceeds to the Nicaraguan Contras)

AppleTalk Remote Access: 976 (the prefix for many phone-sex hotlines)

At Ease: Tiny Toons

Avid Cinema: San Francisco

Bandai Power Player: Pippin

Borland dBASE IV 2.0: X-15 (after the experimental jet which set world
speed and altitude records)

Centris 610: WLCD

Centris 650: Wombat 25

Centris 660AV: Tempest

Claris CAD: Blackjack

Claris FileMaker Pro: Ninja, Samurai, Banzai

Claris MacProject: Road Runner

Claris OfficeMail: RotoRouter

ClarisDraw: Expressway

ClarisImpact: Wall Street (because Claris is confident that this
business graphics package will make lots of money for the company and
appeal to business users)

ClarisWorks: Terminator (because it was designed to terminate Microsoft
Works sales)

Cocoa: Kidsim

Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS: Cobra

Color OneScanner 600/27: Rio

Dantz DiskFit Direct: Paris

Dantz Retrospect 2.0: Warpaint

Dantz Retrospect 3.0: Peary (as in explorer)

Data Access Manager: SnarfMan

dBase Mac: Dottie (after the preliminary product name Dot-Base, which
stemmed from the product's use of the dot
character&emdashOption-8&emdashas a segment separator to specify data
access paths)

Edition Manager: Diet Coke

eMate 300: Project K, Shay

eWorld: Aladdin

Extended Keyboard II: Nimitz (another aircraft carrier)

Extended Keyboard: Saratoga (it's so large it's named after an aircraft
carrier; prototypes were adorned with small model aircraft), Dörfer (the
nickname of Ed Colby)

Full Impact: Glass (because you could place graphical objects, such as
charts, on top of the spreadsheet surface, as though it were covered
with a sheet of glass)

FullWrite: Ozone

Graphing Calculator: NuCalc

HyperCard 2.0: Snow, Hot Water

HyperCard IIGS: Bullfinch

HyperCard: WildCard (hence the creator code WILD)

IBM PC AT: Bigtop, Salmon

IBM PC: Chess, Acorn

ImageWriter II: Express

Iomega Jaz: Viper

ISDN NuBus card: CarCraft

LaserWriter 320: Photon

LaserWriter IIf: Kirin Dry

LaserWriter IIg: Kirin

LaserWriter IINT: Leia

LaserWriter IINTX: Darth Vader

LaserWriter IISC: Solo

LaserWriter LS: Nike

LaserWriter: LightWriter

Layer Manager: Glass Plus

LocalTalk: AppleBus, AppleTalk

Lotus MarketPlace: Surfer

Mac 21" Color Display: Vesuvio

Mac 512K: Fat Mac

Mac Classic II: Montana, Apollo

Mac Classic: XO

Mac Color Classic: Slice

Mac II Monochrome Video Card: Bob the Card

Mac II Two-Page Monochrome Video Card: Barney

Mac II Video Card: Toby

Mac II: Little Big Mac, Milwaukee (engineer Mike Dhuey's hometown), Ikki
(means "bottoms up" in Japanese), Cabernet, Reno (in honor of the
expansion slots), Becks, Paris (homage to Jean-Louis Gassée), Uzi

Mac IIci Cache Card: American Express, Optima (both are "cash cards,"
get it?)

Mac IIci: Aurora II, Cobra II, Pacific, Stingray

Mac IIcx: Atlantic, Aurora, Avanti, Cobra

Mac IIfx: Stealth, Blackbird, F-16, F-19, Four Square, IIxi, Zone V
(military term for pushing an aircraft to its design limits),
Weed-Whacker

Mac IIsi: Oceanic, Ray Ban (as in "the future's so bright, you gotta
wear shades"Éit shipped to developers with a pair of sunglasses),
Erickson, Raffica, Raffika

Mac IIvi: Brazil 16

Mac IIvx: Brazil 32c

Mac IIx: Spock, Stratos

Mac LC 475: Primus

Mac LC 520: Hook 25

Mac LC 550: Hook 33

Mac LC 575: Optimus

Mac LC 630: Show & Tell

Mac LC Apple IIe card: Double Exposure

Mac LC II: Foster Farms

Mac LC III: Vail, Elsie III

Mac LC: Pinball (low-slung case design looks like a pinball machine to
some), Elsie (as in the Borden cowÉtry pronouncing the letters L and C),
Prism

Mac OS 8 (aborted): Copland (named after Aaron Copland, 20th century
American musician)

Mac Plus: Mr. T (perhaps of The A Team, but Apple's chief scientist
Larry Tesler shares this nickname)

Mac Portable (with backlit display): Aruba, Love Shack, Mulligan

Mac Portable: Laguna, Riveria, Malibu, Esprit, Guiness

Mac SE/30: Green Jade, Fafnir

Mac SE: Mac plus or minus, PlusPlus, Aladdin, Freeport, Maui, Chablis

Mac TV: Peter Pan, LD50 (in the medical world, LD50 is the abbreviation
for Lethal Dose 50 percent, the doseage which kills half of those who
take it)

MacDraw Pro 1.0: Chameleon, Maui

MacDraw: Mackelangelo

Macromind MacroModel: Zeppo (Mac version), Harpo (PC version), Gummo
(Silicon Graphics version)

MacsBug: a contraction of Motorola Advanced Computer Systems debugger

MacWrite Pro 1.0: Old Pro

MacWrite Pro 1.5: Cue Ball

MacWrite Pro 1.5v3: Shakespeare

MacWrite: Macauthor

MacX: Malcom

Microsoft Mail 4.0: Capone

Microsoft Windows 95: Cairo, Chicago

MultiFinder: Juggler, Oggler, Twitcher

Netscape Navigator 4.0: Galileo

Network Server 500: Shiner LE

Network Server 700: Shiner HE

Newer Technology SpellTools: Octopod

Newton MessagePad 100: Junior, Wedge

Newton MessagePad 110: Lindy

Newton MessagePad 150: Q

Newton OS 2.0: Dante

Newton OS 2.0 print-only handwriting recognizer: Rosetta

NeXT Computer: Big Mac, 3M (because it had a million pixel display, a
million bytes of memory, and ran a million instructions per second)

OpenDoc: Amber, Exemplar, Jedi

PC Compatibility Card (586): Gaucho

PC Compatibility Card (Pentium): Grand Illusion

PCI family of Macs: PowerSurge

Performa 200: Lady Kenmore

Performa 400: Lady Kenmore, Vail

Performa 460: Route 66

Performa 466: Route 66

Performa 467: Route 66

Performa 475: Aladdin, Primus

Performa 476: Aladdin, Primus

Performa 550: Hook 33

Performa 600: Brazil 32, Mac IIvm (Consumer testing showed that users
thought "vm" was an abbreviation for "virtual memory," so the model
became the Performa 600.)

Performa 630: Show & Tell

Performa 5200: Trailblazer

Performa 6400 logic-board design: Alchemy

Performa 6400: Instatower

Personal LaserWriter LS: Nike

Personal LaserWriter NT: Twist

Personal LaserWriter SC: Shout

PlainTalk SR (speech recognition): Casper

Power Computing PowerWave 604 series: TidalWave

Power Mac 5400 logic-board design: Alchemy

Power Mac 5400/120: Chimera

Power Mac 6100/60: PDM (Piltdown Man, the name for the the man whose
skull was found by an archealogist in 1909 in Susses, England.
Originally believed to represent the missing link between man and ape,
Piltdown Man was determined to be a hoax in 1953.)

Power Mac 6300: Crusader

Power Mac 7100/66: Carl Sagan, BHA (Butt-head Astronomer), LAW (Lawyers
Are Wimps)

Power Mac 7200: Catalyst

Power Mac 7500: TNT

Power Mac 8100/110: Flagship

Power Mac 8100/80: Cold Fusion

Power Mac 8500: Nitro

Power Mac 9500: Tsunami

Power Mac project: Cognac (in honor of a RISC pioneer with a surname
identical to the after-dinner liqueur)

Power Mac Upgrade Card enabler: Rocinante (Don Quixote's horse)

Power Mac Upgrade Card: STP (after the automobile fuel additive)

PowerBook 100: Asahi, Derringer, Rosebud, Classic

PowerBook 140: Tim LC, Tim Lite, Leary, Replacements

PowerBook 145: Colt 45

PowerBook 145B: Pikes Peak

PowerBook 150: Jedi

PowerBook 160: Brooks

PowerBook 165: Dart LC

PowerBook 165c: Monet

PowerBook 170: Road Warrior, Tim

PowerBook 180: Converse, Dartanian

PowerBook 180c: Hokusai

PowerBook 190: Omega

PowerBook 520: Blackbird LC (low cost)

PowerBook 520c: Blackbird LC (low cost)

PowerBook 540: Blackbird LC (low cost)

PowerBook 540c: Blackbird LC (low cost)

PowerBook 1400: Epic

PowerBook 2000: AJ

PowerBook 3400 PCI bus technology: PowerStar

PowerBook 3400: Hooper

PowerBook 5300 series: M2 (the model of a mountain bike from Specialized
Bicycles)

PowerBook Duo 210: DBLite (the lightweight machine was named one night
over a few brewskies in a club called Das Boot), BOB W (Best Of Both
Worlds because it's a portable computer that's also a desktop machine
when inserted into its dock), Cinnamon

PowerBook Duo 230: DBLite (the lightweight machine was named one night
over a few brewskies in a club called Das Boot), BOB W (Best Of Both
Worlds because it's a portable computer that's also a desktop machine
when inserted into its dock), Cinnamon

PowerBook Duo 250: Ansel

PowerBook Duo 270c: Escher

PowerBook Duo 280: Yeager

PowerBook Duo 280c: Yeager

PowerBook Duo Dock II: Atlantis

PowerBook Duo Floppy Adapter: Blackwatch

PowerBook Duo MiniDock: Spaniard

PowerPC 603ev: Valiant

PowerPC 604e: Sirocco

PowerPC 613: Arthur

PowerPC 614: Typhoon

PowerPC 620: Trident

PowerPC 630: Boxer, Dino

PPP 1.0: Paris

Quadra 605: Aladdin, Primus

Quadra 610 DOS PDS card: Houdini

Quadra 610: Speedbump 610 (when the Centris 610 was renamed the Quadra
610, its speed was increased from 20 MHz to 25 MHz)

Quadra 630: Crusader, Show & Tell

Quadra 650: Speedbump 650 (when the Centris 650 was renamed the Quadra
650, its speed was increased from 25 MHz to 33 MHz)

Quadra 660AV: Tempest

Quadra 700: Shadow (shadow of 900), Spike (gonna spike NeXT), IIce, Evo
200

Quadra 800: Wombat 33

Quadra 840AV: Quadra 1000, Cyclone

Quadra 900: Darwin, Eclipse (going to eclipse the NeXT), IIex, Premise
500

Quadra 950: Amazon, Zydeco

Quattro Pro 1.0: Buddha (because they were going to assume the Lotus
position)

Quattro Pro 2.0: Splash (because one million units sold would pay for
the new campus swimming pool)

QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card: White Magic

QuickDraw 3D: Escher

QuickDraw GX: El Kabong, Serrano, Skia

QuickTime 1.5: Dali

QuickTime Conferencing: Alexander, MovieTalk

QuickTime: Warhol (an early version, the Warhol extension, had the icon
of a Campbell's soup can)

Radius flat-panel pivoting color LCD: Ptolemy

RasterOps ColorBoard264: Cheapskate

Sound Manager: DJ, Party Line

StyleWriter: Mighty Mouse, Tabasco, Salsa

Sun Microsystems Mac emulator: Cat-in-the-Hat

SuperMac 8¥24 PDQ: Snap

SuperMac Thunder/24: Pop (the Rice Krispies series; Milk never saw the
light of day)

SuperMac Thunder/8: Crackle

SyQuest EZ135: RoadRunner

System 6.0.4: Antares

System 6.0.5: Big Deal

System 6.0.6: SixPack

System 6.0.8: Terminator (it was the last version of System 6 ever
released)

System 7 Finder: Furnishings 2000 (a defunct San Francisco Bay Area
furniture store)

System 7 Tune-Up: 7-Up

System 7.0.1: Road Warrior, Beta Cheese

System 7: Blue, Big Bang, M80 (a powerful firecracker), Pleiades

System 7.5 Update 1.0: Danook (from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)

System 7.5 Update 2.0: Thag (from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)

System 7.5 Version 7.5.3: Unity

System 7.5.2: Marconi (named after Guglielmo Marconi, 19th century
Italian engineer)

System 7.5.3 Revision 2: Buster (CEO Gil Amelio's high school nickname)

System 7.5.3 Revision 2: Son of Buster (CEO Gil Amelio's high school
nickname)

System 7.5: Capone (Apple hopes that like the famous gangster, Capone
will strike fear into the hearts of Chicago, Microsoft's code name for
Windows 95)

System 7.6: Harmony

Taligent OS: Defiant, Pink

TrueType: Bass (as in Saturday Night Live's Bass-O-Matic), Royal

Twentieth Anniversary Mac: Pomona, Spartacus

Workgroup Server 60: Blugu

Workgroup Server 80: Blugu

Workgroup Server 95: Menagine


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The following are the code names culled from various sources that have
yet to be positively identified. TK is a proofreader's mark indicating
that information is still "to come." Dates in parentheses are estimated
times of introduction for the products. If you know the product name
that goes with any of the following code names, please pass this
information on to me.

3.6lb subnotebook from IBM/Apple (6/97): Comet

4-pound dockable: Companion

16-ppm, 300-dpi printer: Clydesdale

19" gray-scale card: Barney

19" gray-scale monitor: Fred

Apple IIGS software emulator for Mac: Gus

Apple/IBM Visual Basic-like programming environment (early 1997): Denali

AppleShare w/ Internet data types (fall 96): FutureShare

CD-ROM computer: Sweet Pea, Playstation, Fast Eddie

color flatbed scanner w/ 600 by 1200 dpi and 30-bit resolution (07/96):
New Orleans

Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) Mac: Moccasin

conferencing tool for education market: Miracle

Copland interface project: MUSE

cross-platform document storage format: Bento

Cyberdog search engine/info-access tool kit: V-Twin

education overlay for Mac OS/At Ease on steroids: Dewey

G3-series processor (06/97): Arthur

high-end Mac motherboard starting at 604e 225-MHz (6/97): PowerExpress

high-quality AV card w/ Power Express (97): Deacon Blues

Java class library that adds QuickTime functions: Biscotti

low-cost logic-board design used by Motorola: Tanzania

M2-design PowerBook w/ 68LC040: Omega

multifunction (fax, copy, print, telephony) Mac: Paladin

Network Server w/ 200MHz, big hard disks, fast CD-ROM drives: Shiner Pro

PCI audiovisual cards w/ Philips TriMedia coprocessors (mid 97):
South-by-Southwest ($4-500, audio in/out), FireDrill ($2-3K, audio/video
in/out, FireWire)

PCI ISDN/QuickTime Conferencing card: Cider

Performa LC replaces Power Mac 5200, 6290, and 6300 series (spring 96):
Excalibur

Performa w/ 1 PCI slot, 100-120 MHz PowerPC 603e, modular: Elixir

Power Computing PPCP system: Project: Grail

Power Mac 5200 in graphite w/ TV, MPEG hardware: Phoenix

Power Mac 7300 replacment (08/97) with 604e CPU from 166 to 266MHz:
Gossamer

Power Mac 8600 and 9600 tower case: K2

Power Mac Pro 160 to 225Mhz (Q197): Montana (the only state without a
speed limit)

PowerBook subnotebook: Nautilus

PowerBook w/ floppy and docking ability: Argonaut

PowerBook w/ PowerPC 603+: M2 (the model of a mountain bike from
Specialized Bicycles)

PowerExpress-based Mac 7-bay, 6-slot tower w/ 604e 280-MHz (6/97): K2

PowerExpress-based Mac minitower w/ 604e 250-MHz (6/97): Stumpy

PowerPC 603+ upgrade for PowerBook 500 series: Malcom

PowerPC Platform w/ 166-Mhz 604e (11/96): Orient Express

rack-mountable network server, $4-6K, runs Windows NT and AIX (Q297):
Deep Dish

RISC machine: Roman, Zorro

storyboard application for planning movies: Calico

StyleWriter 1500 replacement, 3ppm (spring 97): Cabo

StyleWriter 2500 replacement, 5ppm (spring 97): Baja

System 8: Tempo

Tanzania-based Mac $1499-1599 (2/17): Cupid

TK Unix: Tylenol

TK: Blue Jade

TK: Chuck E. Cheese

TK: Davenport (low-cost Internet box)

TK: Gold Jade

TK: Jonathan

TK: Modern Victorian (original tower design case), Columbo, CS

TK: Red Jade

UMAX SuperMacs w/ PowerPC 603e (fall 96): Typhoon