Sparcom General Chemistry Application Pac

[BruceH]

(06-05-2023 03:36 AM)Eric Rechlin Wrote:  Unfortunately, Sparcom is no more. It eventually was renamed to da Vinci, and then totally disappeared

As an aside, I seem to recall Mega explaining that he renamed the company because Sun Microsystems' legal people contacted him claiming that "Sparc" was a Sun trademark and they wanted him to stop using it.

The fact that "Sparcom" was pronounced "spar-com" not "sparc-om" cut no ice and they were insistent. At which point he then showed that he'd registered the Sparcom name long before Sun registered Sparc and - by their logic - perhaps they were infringing his trademark?

It was resolved by him agreeing to change the company name if Sun paid the costs. Bizarrely, however, he didn't change the name to da Vinci! Sun were happy to let him use "Sparcom Computer Systems" or some such, just as long as he didn't use "Sparcom" on its own.

No idea what caused him to later change to da Vinci - but it sounds a lot better and I'm surprised it was available as a name anyway. :-)