page_title: McIntosh (apple)
section_title: Cultural significance
hierarchical_section_title: McIntosh (apple) / Cultural significance
caption_attribution_description: A Macintosh 128K (that has apparently been upgraded to 512K, see window) running Finder 4.1 American transparent background. Note the add-on "Programmer's Switch" on the lower-left corner of the case, which includes reset and interrupt buttons. Based on w:Image:Macintosh 128k No Text.jpg which was edited by TDS from a version found on the Wikimedia Commons to remove text that obstructed the photograph. (Image:Macintosh 128k.jpg). It is desirable that the current image be recreated in jpg from that source. The original photograph is from the All About Apple Museum, which also shows the back of the machine, confirming it is the original 128K model (Macintosh 128k.&#32;All About Apple Museum. Archived from the original on 2004-01-01.). This is an image that has been released into the GFDL. Because of the free license, it is currently the logo of WikiProject Macintosh.
context_page_description: The McIntosh, McIntosh Red, or colloquially the Mac is an apple cultivar, the national apple of Canada. The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. In the 20th century it was the most popular cultivar in Eastern Canada and New England, and is considered an all-purpose apple, suitable both for cooking and eating raw. Apple Inc. employee Jef Raskin named the Macintosh line of personal computers after the fruit.
  John McIntosh discovered the original McIntosh sapling on his Dundela farm in Upper Canada in 1811. He and his wife bred it, and the family started grafting the tree and selling the fruit in 1835. In 1870, it entered commercial production, and became common in northeastern North America after 1900. While still important in production, the fruit's popularity fell in the early 21st century in the face of competition from varieties such as the Gala. According to the US Apple Association website it is one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United States.
context_section_description: The McIntosh has been designated the national apple of Canada.  A popular subscription funded a plaque placed 100 metres (110 yd) from the original McIntosh tree in 1912.  The Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board replaced the plaque with a more descriptive one in 1962, and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada put up another in a park nearby in 2001, by a painted mural commemorating the fruit.
  Apple Inc. employee Jef Raskin named the Macintosh line of personal computers after the McIntosh.  He deliberately misspelled the name to avoid conflict with the hi-fi equipment manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory.  Apple's attempt in 1982 to trademark the name Macintosh was nevertheless denied due to the phonetic similarity between Apple's product and the name of the hi-fi manufacturer.  Apple licensed the rights to the name in 1983, and bought the trademark in 1986.
  In 1995 the Royal Canadian Mint commissioned Toronto artist Roger Hill to design a commemorative silver dollar for release in 1996.  Mint engraver Sheldon Beveridge engraved the image of a group of three McIntoshes and a McIntosh blossom which adorn one side with a ribbon naming the variety.  An inscription on the edge reads "1796 Canada Dollar 1996".  Issued sheathed in a silver cardboard sleeve in a black leatherette case, 133,779 pieces of the proof were sold, as well as 58,834 pieces of the uncirculated version in a plastic capsule and silver sleeve.
caption: Apple Inc.'s Macintosh line of personal computers was named after the fruit.
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