West, is this a survey to determine preferences for a possible museum shop offering? I prefer the classic grille shaped sign with the script "Ask the Man Who Owns One".

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Brian,

Owen is doing research and needs as many numbers off of Packards as he can get. The ones in particular includes the big raised numbers above your heater, called "thief-proof".

_Carl

Signs are like young women, buy the sign that is the most pretty. Which probably means the sign with the grill.

West-

Are you asking if we wanted a metal sign on the wall, and we had to choose between the two, which one would we like?

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I just pulled the ignition switch from a boneyard Packard. I believe it is a '49, but identity is hampered by a lack of trim and a missing firewall plate. In any case, it does not have a shielded cable to the coil. Was that gone by then? Only marking on it is E8488.

Which grille?? How about showing the two examples.
A picture is worth...

Brian, I checked out your photos. Our cars look identical. My trim code is 71. THe paint was C, Granada Grey.

If you had your choice between buying a stamped sign with the Packard crest or one with the grille shape and "Packard Service," which would you prefer?

There has never been anything "dark" about Mac as far as I'm concerned. I've been on Mac practically my whole computer life. Started out with the tiny SE and kept moving up from there. It has alway seemed much easier to use and understand than the PCs, so I never even considered buying a PC. I am currently using a Mac Pro with a dual quad processor and 30-inch monitor. Almost all my applications are Adobe, but I do have Microsoft Office.

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Your next paragraph answers the question--they didn't sell well. At the time, they were about the coolest and yet expensive (and limited) computer you could buy in the consumer market. I came so close to buying one for my first mac but finally decided that 2k for just a single relatively slow processor with no expansion capability (at the time) and then another approx 1k for a monitor just didn't compute. Bought a dual processor tower instead & haven't looked back. Now the cubes are becoming something of a cult object and still command a good price used.

As to word, and actually a lot the stuff that became office, you are so correct. MS developed it under contract FOR APPLE, with Apple help and guidelines etc etc. Thanks to some very poor legal and executive work on Apples part, MS was able to "appropriate" it along with the mouse driven GUI interface that became windows 95.

Anyone even remotely interested in the history of MS, Apple, operating systems and how various things came to pass in the industry can find a series of articles on www.roughlydrafted.com in the archives section. Somewhat biased at times, but apparently factual because he hasn't been sued or shut down--something MS (and Apple) have been known to try or do if writing doesn't please them.