[sxp]

>Back around 1990, some forward-thinking IT person secured for Apple an entire Class A network of IP addresses.

I found that fact to be the most interesting part of the article. The list of other Class A holders is also interesting: http://www.aturtschi.com/whois/neta1.html

[davvid]

Back around 1990, some forward-thinking IT person secured for Apple an entire Class A network of IP addresses.

Pixar has a large block too... I wonder if Steve had something to do with it?

[1amzave]

Indeed -- also interesting are the results of an RDNS query on the first IP address listed in the article (17.149.160.49).

[jdechko]

I knew that going in, but only because of this: http://xkcd.com/195/