Title: FYI - How the Raspberry Pi got its name
Course: DEPT MC - PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE

Several of you asked about this on the syllabus questionnaire -- apparently the Raspberry Pi is so named partly out of nostalgia (for early fruit-themed computer names, i.e. Apple, Apricot, etc.) and because Python was initially considered the official programming language of the device.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2657

***BONUS***  A nice history of Apricot Computers, for those who are curious:  http://apricotcomputers.com/