On 2002-05-28 05:13, "Michael Mays" <chaosmonk_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> The Messagepad 2000 has a nice pretty embossed Apple badge above its
> "Messagepad 2000" title at the bottom. The 2100 has a hokey-looking printed
> badge on a circular piece that looks like it could be easily pried off. And,
> of course, it has "Messagepad 2100" printed below that. Maybe they were
> thinking of selling their molds to someone else to make custom-designed
> MP2100s with different badging.
The MP2100 was supposed to be Newton, Inc.'s first product, and as such the
case was designed to sport the newton logo, not Apple's logo. But then Steve
came back, and spun Newton, Inc. back into Apple, so the Apple logo on the
MP2100 case was a bit of an afterthought, really.
That also makes the MP2100 the only Apple product to ship without the metal
badge from the time of the Apple II until the original iMac was released.
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