Captain Haddock Hergé thought this was a perfect name for Tintin’s new mariner friend, and so Captain Haddock was born. There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert Haddock had been the skipper of the famous White Star Line's passenger vessel "Olympic". He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's even more famous sister ship "Titanic" before "Titanic" was officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912 maiden voyage. Another famous namesake, and a possible inspiration for the Captain's ancestor Sir Francis, was the English admiral Richard Haddock, a veteran of
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