[deater]

quite possible because it's from Europe, but remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed.

[Someone]

> remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed.

Did they? AFAIK, Apple always used “Plus”, not “+” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus, https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documenta...), and “+” is shorthand invented by the community.

The Macintosh Plus, similarly, wasn’t a Macintosh+ in Apple’s marketing, AFAIK.

And, looking at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500#Amiga_500_Plus, it doesn’t look like Commodore stuck + on the end of their model names, either.

[zamalek]

I think that many companies have been appending + to the end of product names for an extremely long time. This is hardly an Apple innovation.

[bigiain]

Next you're gonna try and tell me that Apple didn't invent the mobile phone. Or the portable MP3 player. Or the windowing GUI.

[al_be_back]

Jobs was "inspired" by a visit at Xerox labs, they showed him a GUI built using Smalltalk (which they'd also invented). So naturally, he ran back to his office and invented GUI ;)

[lostlogin]

There is no prize for second… unless you do it better.

[al_be_back]

Or for third I guess lol Jobs demoed a mac gui to Gates, and apparently Gates ran strait to his Microsoft office, where he too invented gui. Jobs was very upset for years.

[boneitis]

No, but they did invent rounded corners :^)

[chihuahua]

Steve Jobs invented the "+" sign at Reed College!

/s

[MomsAVoxell]

Yes but it was much more stylish: ⌘

/s

[bestham]

No, it was not Steve that found the Symbol but Susan Kare the Macintosh graphics artist. https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html

[bigiain]

But unlike Steve, Susan will live on immortal - as the inventor of the Dogcow.

[MomsAVoxell]

Yeah, that means it was Steve. :P

/s

(joking, relax..)

[whyenot]

I think it actually was an Apple innovation, at least for {hobbyist, home, personal} computers. I did some digging and wasn't able to find anything before the Apple II+ in 1979. Please do prove me wrong, though!

[Y_Y]

I found an old edition of Byte from 77 where they advertise a "Vector Graphic Vector 1+":

https://isaac.lsu.edu/byte/issues/197710_Byte_Magazine_Vol_0...

A quick search doesn't find me pictures, but I did find a "Vector 1++”:

https://vintagecomputer.ca/vector-graphic-vector-1/

[exasperaited]

The BBC Model B (the machine the Raspberry Pi got its A/B designation) was supplemented with a Model B+ in 1985, with twice the memory.

https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/BBCB+6...