7 Jun
1998
7 Jun
'98
7:38 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Tom Owad wrote:
What edition do you have? My 2nd edition book says a
listing of clones
is given in edition 1, as oppose to just saying they exist. I'd love to
get a list of old Mac clones.
I made a timely find today of the first edition of _Build Your Own
Macintosh and Save a Bundle_. In Chapter 2 it has a price comparison
between the clone "Cat" Mac and the real Mac. The computers it lists are:
Cat Mac SE
Cat Mac SE 30
Cat Mac II
Cat Mac IIfx
Cat Mac IIcx
Cat Mac IIci
It will indeed be interesting if I ever find one of these homebrew clones
(For the curious, the book basically tells you to buy Mac motherboards and
parts from third-party suppliers and stick them in a PC case. That's it.)
They would be hard to spot since I don't even give a first look to PC
clone boxes. There's not really anything special about them anyway, other
than the fact that it is novel.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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