Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike Hall ( ) is Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The original French name of the hall, "Moulinsart", is derived from Sart-Moulin, a village near Braine-l'Alleud in Walloon Brabant, Belgium. In an allusion to the Haddock family's maritime history, the hall's English name refers to the marlinspike, a tool used in seamanship to splice ropes. The Belgian corporation managing Hergé's work (principally "Tintin") is also called Moulinsart S.A. Marlinspike Hall first appears in "The Secret of the Unicorn" as the home of the story's
Haddock Corporation software operated on the IBM 5110, IBM 5120, and IBM System/23 Datamaster, and was widely distributed. Apple convinced Haddock to being selling the new Macintosh computer when it was released in 1984, and while selling IBM-compatibles occasionally, the company has been selling Apple products since the beginning. During Gil Amelio's tenure as Apple CEO, Haddock and other retailers worked with Apple's Paddy Wong and Loretta Flores to develop the Apple Specialist program intended to strengthen Apple's retail channel. Haddock Corporation Haddock Corporation is an American consumer electronics and information technology consulting business based in Wichita, Kansas which operates two Haddock