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- From: mcrae@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew McRae)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Does the clone of Macintosh still exist?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.162051.18929@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:20:51 GMT
- References: <105892@bu.edu>
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- In article <105892@bu.edu>, robw@acs.bu.edu (Robert Winchester) writes:
- >
- > Does anyone know if a clone of the Apple Macintosh exists? I remember
- > reading about a company that supposedly reversed engineered a binary
- > compatible system (Apple specific chips, software and the like). I can
- > not find the name and address of that company. I doubt it was from the
- > people who made the Outbound -- that machine uses/licenses Apple stuff.
-
- This may be pure rumour, but...
-
- I have read of a machine called a "Jonathan", made in Singapore (or
- Taiwan?), which was precisely what you describe. The story was that the
- country in question isn't a signatory to international copyright and
- patent conventions, so there was nothing Apple could do about it. Of
- course, importing such a thing into just about any other country,
- including the U.S., is likely to get the importer into very hot water
- indeed -- the thing I read referred to a number of students who had
- decided that the machine was a good deal, and had tried to take them to
- the U.S. only to have them confiscated.
-
- I think it was in "Newsweek", about 1988.
-
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