Subj : Re: what are you dialing in with?
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Jun 14 2024 06:46:00

 Ni> Did it?  I don't remember ever seeing any Apple II clones, or clones of
 Ni> the Quadra etc..  Apple didn't allow clones until after Steve Jobs was
 Ni> kicked out of Apple; I remember seeing some Mac clones from Power
 Ni> Computing, Motorola, and maybe a couple otehrs.  Some of them were more
 Ni> powerful than Apple's Macs at a lower price.  But Steve Jobs killed that
 Ni> when he came back.

At one time every man and his dog, and maybe his dog's unknown pet were
making Apple II Clones.  Taiwan, China, South America some better than
others, some with extra features, like Z80 built into the Motherboard.  We
even had 2 clones here in Australia, Dick Smith CAT which I believe is
another pre-existing clone relabled, and a Medfly.

I'm a bit rusty on just what Macs there were clones for.  The era you're
looking for is the Sculley CEO era, when you put a pepsi man in charge of a
computer company.  He probably tried to hard to be all things to all people.
They had to many models, aimed at to many niches, and were making a loss.
Jobs to his credit looked at the inventory, and nixed everything that was not
core unfortunately including the IIgs, limited the models and drove it back
into profit.

Spec


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