24 Jan
2004
24 Jan
'04
10:37 a.m.
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Brian Mahoney wrote:
Might have been a tie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible says that Columbia came up
with an IBM clone in early 1982.
Steve Weyhrich in his Apple history timeline puts the Franklin 100 (1000?)
in March 1982.
http://apple2history.org/history/appy/ahb3.html
It's the Franklin 100, which used ROMs copied from an Apple ][+, and
therefore violating Apple's copyrights. The 1000 was the later model that
had the "legal" ROMs.
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