So, who WERE the worst EARLY clones?
There WERE much worse machines than Sanyo. (which suffered more from
incompatability than quality).
Hyundai were also too late I assume. Tandy was questionable, but in reality not as bad as
their rep. Cordat, Corona? Can't say. There were gujillions of Taiwanese boxes in
those days. There were kit computers. I know I'll get egged for.this, but personally I
think people were stupid to not build a clone from parts they mail ordered from the back
of BYTE. I was in fact too stupid. Heard all the bed rap about evil vicious clones and
their problems. I did return my Tandy 1000 once I found out I could get top of the line
graphics and screen for the same price. But I waited over a year to buy a Multisync II
then some months later a pernicious Tandy 2000. It would have held up longer if I
wasn't constantly tearing it apart. Then I bought an Itt Xtra XP 286 hybrid.
Wasn't bad at all, but once again I conxtantly twiddled with it's innards.
Terry Yaeger once had a Hacker XT luggable. Maybe you should talk to him about it. And
I'm telling you right now one of the rarest things in the universe are the later vga
luggables that seemingly were churned out in the trillions.