It may not go down too well with the company’s peace-and-love fans, but Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, is donning khaki to bid 18,000 Macintoshes for an $800m contract with the US Army for a battlefield command and control system, due to be let next spring. According to the Newsbytes newswire, Apple has teamed with the Magnavox subsidiary of North American Philips to give its bid greater credibility in what would be a virgin market for the company. The original specification called for Unix System V compatibility, but following objections from some would-be vendors, the Army is redrawing its standards specification. Others expected to bid include Hewlett Packard and Unisys.