Subj : Re: First Computer That R
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Feb 09 2022 16:52:21

  Re: Re: First Computer That R
  By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Wed Feb 09 2022 04:20 pm

 >> I remember seeing some Windows PCs like that in the late 90s & early
 >> 2000s.  I the late 90s, there was one particular Windows PC I remember
 >> seeing in stores at was an all-in-one that used translucent blue &
 >> white plastic and looked a l like Apple's new iMac at the time.  I
 >> remember hearing Apple sued that compan because their PCs looked too
 >> much like their iMac, and they won, and the compa making those PCs had
 >> to stop selling them. 

 DW> This would have been in 1994, which was before the iMac (I think). These
 DW> were more "boringly" packaged units in plain beige cases. I think I also
 DW> remember those PCs that looked like they were knocking off the look of the
 DW> iMac, but don't think I ever saw one firsthand. I wonder who made them?

No, it wasn't 1994.  It was in the late 90s, when Apple had started making the newer translucent iMacs.  As someone else mentioned, it was eMachines.  I looked it up, and it was the eMachines eOne, which they were selling in 1999:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMachines_eOne

Nightfox

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