Dixon Cannon
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... and I've got a little story about it!
Way back in 1976 I was working in Los Angeles when I read an (very small) article in Time or Newsweek about a (very small) company up in Cupertino that was trying to make and market a personal computer (of all things!). I read that that company called itself Apple.
About eight years earlier in London the Beatles had founded their Apple Corps. Ltd. and enlisted the help of a young Greek named Alexis Mardas to run Apple Electronics. His mission was to create a 'wireless' recording studio in Savile Row and develop various electronic devices for the newly formed Apple empire, in what John Lennon called, "manufacturin' and the like."
When I read of Apple Computer in California, I immediately thought of 'Magic Alex' and his "manufacturin'". I wrote to Apple Computer to inquire about their new company, their connection to the Beatles, 'Magic' Alex Mardas and their, so-called 'personal computer'.
The strange thing is, they never wrote back or gave me any information about their company, which I thought strange for a venture just entering the marketplace.
I've often thought about Apple, Inc. and Apple Corps over the last thirty years as I've read about their squabbles and wondered what they must have thought about my early inquiries about their Apple picking! And I've always wondered what ever happened to 'Magic' Alex Mardas and if he ever wondered, "Gee! I wish I'd thought of manufacturin' that!".
-dixon cannon
Way back in 1976 I was working in Los Angeles when I read an (very small) article in Time or Newsweek about a (very small) company up in Cupertino that was trying to make and market a personal computer (of all things!). I read that that company called itself Apple.
About eight years earlier in London the Beatles had founded their Apple Corps. Ltd. and enlisted the help of a young Greek named Alexis Mardas to run Apple Electronics. His mission was to create a 'wireless' recording studio in Savile Row and develop various electronic devices for the newly formed Apple empire, in what John Lennon called, "manufacturin' and the like."
When I read of Apple Computer in California, I immediately thought of 'Magic Alex' and his "manufacturin'". I wrote to Apple Computer to inquire about their new company, their connection to the Beatles, 'Magic' Alex Mardas and their, so-called 'personal computer'.
The strange thing is, they never wrote back or gave me any information about their company, which I thought strange for a venture just entering the marketplace.
I've often thought about Apple, Inc. and Apple Corps over the last thirty years as I've read about their squabbles and wondered what they must have thought about my early inquiries about their Apple picking! And I've always wondered what ever happened to 'Magic' Alex Mardas and if he ever wondered, "Gee! I wish I'd thought of manufacturin' that!".
-dixon cannon