The long-term memory was of a short-lived project that Rico concocted, but (not surprisingly) never got traction on at Apple, for a military Macintosh, code-named (that Apple thing) Gravenstein. The notion was to have a hardened (physically and electronically) laptop that would run specialized software (also concocted by Rico) for military applications.
As an example, how about an app that can open USGS topographical maps (still unknown at the time, back in the late 80s) and take a line drawn across it and compute the terrain profile:

Drawing a terrain profile is one of the first things they teach you in ROTC map reading class. Any 3D CADD program should be able to do that now.
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