Captain Haddock the time of their last completed and published adventure, "Tintin and the Picaros", Haddock had become such an important figure that he dominates much of the story. Captain (Archibald) Haddock's ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock, is hinted at being the illegitimate son of the French Sun King (Louis XIV), a possible reference to Hergé's own family history— Hergé liked to believe that his father was the illegitimate son of the Belgian king Leopold II. As Hergé was considering names for his new character, he asked his wife, Germaine, what she had cooked for dinner. She told him, “a sad English fish—haddock.”
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