24 Jan
2004
24 Jan
'04
8:59 a.m.
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
Brian
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> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Curt vendel wrote:
>
> > I had always thought Lazer was the first Apple Clone??? We
> used to have
> > more of those then real Apple ]['s in college back in 84-88
>
> Franklin, I believe, came out with the "first" (as far as is known)
Apple
][ clone.
Aye, and they were the first to get sued by Apple for doing so :)
w