16 Dec
1998
16 Dec
'98
6:44 a.m.
> > I used to have a number of Laser machines
that were NOT Apple clones
> > but PC compatibles. I don't know if this is the case with yours. Laser
> > was a PC clone manufacturer until they went out of business maybe 5
> > years ago, to the best of my knowledge at least.
> The 128 is an Apple clone, but you're right, they started
> also IBM cloning - like most of the clone companies.
> P.S.: I still belive in my theory that IBM
cloning was initiated by Apple.
Except that there were TRS-80 clones long before the
Franklin Ace
initiated Apple II cloning.
When had Franklin started cloning ?
I remember have seen the first Apple ][ clone in spring 1980.
(But Franklin or Compaq are only the smaler parts of my theory)
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK