Intel MDS and Mohawk

[Tom Watson]

Scribed by "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>:

> I was going over some old 8" Intel diskettes and discovered some that 
> have the legend "MDS is a registered trademark of Mohawk Data Science 
> Corporation"
>
> Does anyone remember when Intel started adding the asterisked text to 
> "MDS"?
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck

All I know is some history:  Mohawk Data Sciences did all sorts of things
in the 60's and 70's.  Their main "claim to fame" was a key-to-tape machine
that was to replace keypunches (remember 029 keypunches) with something more
"modern".  They did find some place, but I never used one.  On the other hand
I was (un)fortunate to interface a Mohawk printer (a model 4330 to be exact) to
a larger computer (A Xerox Sigma 5) and it had (still has on the case) a nice
MDS logo.  I suspect that Intel started using MDS as a marketing term and the
lawyers from Mohawk made a nice call on the phone.

Another observation:  Later Xerox Sigma CPUs had a sticker (inside the control
panel door) indicating that the term "Sigma" was used under license from some
corporation (Sigma Relays?).  They probably got a lawyer call as well. 
Sometimes these things take a while (years), but eventually it all works out. 
A recent (very bad) example was a guy called Mike Rowe (I think) who wanted to
sell software on the web.  He got a "nastygram" from the guys in Redmond who
didn't appreciate it too much.  I'm sure you can search for the end result.

Note to wise:  If you think you have a trademark, do a little search.  It might
save some real money at a later date.

-- 
Tom Watson
tsw at johana.com

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