Network Server 500: Shiner LE Network Server 700: Shiner HE Workgroup Server 60 and 80: Blugu Workgroup Server 95: Chinook Workgroup Server 95 A/UX: Barracuda Workgroup Server 95 AppleShare: Fugu Workgroup Server 95 project: Menagine
Workgroup Server 6150/60, 8150/80, and 9150/80: Starbucks Workgroup Server 7250/120 and 8550/132: Summit
Xserve: Moses
Miscellaneous
1MB Apple Inline Cache: Sam-I-Am AISS: Making Waves
Apple MPEG Card: Cannes (after the French film festival) AppleDesign Powered Speakers: Badger
AppleDesign Powered Speakers II: Baby Badger iSight: Q8
PC Compatibility Card (586): Gaucho
PC Compatibility Card (Pentium): Grand Illusion
Monitors
Apple AudioVision 14 Display: Telecaster
AppleColor High-Resolution RGB Monitor Video Card: Toby Apple Color Plus 14-Inch Display: Dragon
Apple High-Res. Monochrome Monitor Video Card: Bob the Card Apple Studio Display: Manta
AppleVision 1710 Display: Hammerhead AppleVision 1710AV Display: Sousa Macintosh 12-Inch RGB Display: Mai Tai Seated next to a two-page monitor, it’s
easy to understand why the squat Quadra 800 mini-tower was code-named Fridge.
Designed for low-cost multimedia, the second iteration of the AppleDesign Powered Speakers was known as Baby Badger.
Code Names Uncovered Macintosh 16-Inch Color Display: Goldfish
Macintosh 21-Inch Color Display: Vesuvio
Two-Page Monochrome Display: Fred, Kong (its colossal size is reminiscent of the great ape)
Two-Page Monochrome Video Card: Barney
Networking
Apple Freedom Network: Frogger
Apple Token Ring: Frodo (from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings) AppleShare 1.0: 007
AppleShare 3.0: Killer Rabbit
AppleTalk Internet Router (1989): North (after Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who routed Iranian arms sale proceeds to the Nicaraguan Contras)
AppleTalk Internet Router (1992 update): Betelgeuse (the star Alpha Orionis)
AppleTalk Network Card for Apple II: Bullwinkle (companion to Rocky, the canceled Apple II–based server using a 5MB ProFile)
AppleTalk Remote Access: 976 (a prefix for many phone-sex hotlines) LocalTalk: AppleBus, AppleTalk
LocalTalk serial card: Livonia
Network Software Installer 1.0: Lumahai Network Software Installer 2.0: Balihai Network Software Installer 3.0: Why-o-wai
PowerTalk APIs: Ventoux (a French resort known for bicycle races) SNA•ps 5250: B52
Newton
eMate 300: Project K, Schoolbook, Shay Newton Keyboard: Bazooka
Newton MessagePad 100: Junior, Wedge
Newton MessagePad 110: Lindy (the brand name of a pen) Newton MessagePad 110 Charging Station: Crib
Newton MessagePad 120: Gelato (came in 1MB or 2MB flavors) Newton MessagePad 130: Dante
Newton MessagePad 2000: Q
Newton OS 2.0 print-only handwriting recognizer: Rosetta (after the stone that helped decipher hieroglyphics)
Printers
Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS: Cobra Color StyleWriter 2200: Calamari Color StyleWriter 2400: Aurora Color StyleWriter Pro: Fantasia, Logo ImageWriter II: Express
LaserWriter: LightWriter
The Macintosh 16-Inch Color Display was code-named Goldfish.
The Newton MessagePad 130 was code-named Dante, after the author of Inferno, because creating it was a project from hell.
Code Names Uncovered
LaserWriter 12/640 PS: Mongoose LaserWriter IIf: Kirin Dry (a Japanese beer) LaserWriter IIg: Kirin (a Japanese beer) LaserWriter IINT: Leia
StyleWriter: Franklin, Mighty Mouse, Salsa, Tabasco StyleWriter II: Speedracer
StyleWriter 4100: Cabo StyleWriter 4500: Baja
Software
A/UX 1.0: Pigs in Space A/UX 1.1.1: Circle K
A/UX 2.0: Perestroika, Space Cadet A/UX 3.0: Hulk Hogan
AirPort Utility 5.0.5: Shamrock Apple File Exchange: Renault Apple Font Pack: Big Sur Apple Guide: Reno
AppleScript 1.0: Cheeze Whiz, Gustav (engineer Donn Denman’s rottweiler, the team mascot), Toy Surprise
AppleScript 1.1: Guava Surprise, Pure Guava AppleSearch: Bogart
At Ease: Tiny Toon Claris CAD: Blackjack ClarisDraw: Expressway
Claris FileMaker Pro: Banza, Ninja, Samurai
ClarisImpact: Wall Street (due to its appeal to business users) Claris MacProject: Road Runner
Claris OfficeMail: RotoRouter
ClarisWorks: Terminator (designed to terminate Microsoft Works) Cocoa: Kidsim
Cyberdog search engine/info-access tool kit: V-Twin Data Access Manager: SnarfMan
Dylan: Denali, Ralph Edition Manager: Diet Coke The code name for the StyleWriter II,
Speedracer, was a reference to the improved performance of this printer released in January 1993.
AppleShare 3.0 was code-named Killer Rabbit, after the blood-sucking character in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Although it was renamed before release, vestiges of its former incarnation can be found in the shipping version. If you have ever activated File Sharing under System 7, look inside the File Sharing folder in the Preferences folder in the System folder.
Normally, the Mac writes an invisible PDS (Parallel Data Structure) file to each volume that is mounted while File Sharing is on. However, in the cases of write-protected or read-only volumes (such as CD-ROMs), the Mac writes visible PDS files to the startup disk.
These files are used to help manage File Sharing, and they have an icon of a Killer Rabbit. Incidentally, the Killer Rabbit is stored as ICN# resource 20002 in the File Sharing extension (this file’s creator code is hhgg, which some say stands for Douglas Adams’
book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but more likely refers to the Holy Hand Grenade, which killed the Killer Rabbit).
Code Names Uncovered Graphing Calculator: NuCalc
HyperCard: WildCard (hence the creator code WILD) HyperCard 2.0: Hot Water, Snow
HyperCard IIGS: Bulfinch (after author Thomas Bulfinch), Iduna iChat AV: Viceroy
iDVD 3.0.1: Flame iLife: Tropicana
Layer Manager: Glass Plus MacDraw: Mackelangelo
MacDraw Pro 1.0: Chameleon, Maui
Macintosh Application Environment (MAE): Cat-in-the-Hat MacsBug: Motorola Advanced Computer Systems debugger MacWrite: Macauthor
MacWrite Pro 1.0: Old Pro MacWrite Pro 1.5: Cue Ball MacWrite Pro 1.5v3: Shakespeare
MacX: DeXter (saxophonist “Long Tail Dexter” Gordon), Malcom MultiFinder: Juggler, Oggler, Twitcher
OpenDoc: Amber, Exemplar, Jedi (“Jed and I,” referring to Jed Harris and Kurt Piersol, original OpenDoc architects)
PlainTalk SR (speech recognition): Casper
QuickTime 1.0: Warhol (an early beta had a Campbell’s soup can icon) QuickTime for Java: Biscotti
QuickTime for Windows: Ethel QuickTime 1.5: Dali
QuickTime 6.3: Sidecar
QuickTime Conferencing: Alexander, MovieTalk
QuickDraw (32-bit): Jackson Pollock (after the colorful painter) QuickDraw 3D: Escher
QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card: White Magic QuickDraw GX: El Kabong, Serrano, Skia Sound Manager: DJ, Party Line