The Birth of Casita

[floyd]

Originally Posted by mccownw

We have a Scamp built in March 1973. I read somewhere that Eveland used the name Acorn only 1 year, and began using the name Scamp in 1972.

Not quite...
The Acorn name was used Circa 1978 during a time when the rights to the name "Scamp" was disputed. Once the dispute was settled the name "Scamp" was resumed... to this day.

[Jon in AZ]

Originally Posted by Kevin K

* Technically, “boler” is spelled with a lower case b.

Manufacturers can use any case and font they want when creating their logo, which is essentially a graphic design. Others use block capitals. It was recently considered fashionable to use all lowercase (my current business card is all lowercase). Boler was ahead of its time, I guess! The latest trend, thanks to Apple, is to mix capitals and lowercase in unconventional ways, for example, the new "GoBE" trailer.

However, the convention in written English is to capitalize the first letter only of a proper noun. So- technically- it is correct to write/type "Boler" and "Gobe."

Conventions sometimes yield to popular pressure when a product becomes ubiquitous, like “iPhone.”

Back to regular programming....