The PC's Soviet? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Apr 1998

-Matt Pritchard
Graphics Engine and Optimization Specialist
MS Age of Empires & Age of Empires ][

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  -----Original Message-----
 From:	Jeff Kaneko [SMTP:Jeff.Kaneko@ifrsys.com]
 Sent:	Wednesday, April 22, 1998 9:37 AM
 To:	Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
 Subject:	RE: The PC's Soviet?

 There were all kinds of small Apple cloners around, with various  Apple
  variety and fruit names ("Granny
Smith", "McIntosh", "Pear", etc.).  The
  only obvious differences between most of these
machines and an  actual
  Apple ][+ was the lack of the Apple logo, and
usually the presence  of
  lower case display (though not necessarily the
shift-key mod, which  my
  machine lacks).  Some had additional stuff,
though, like function  keys and
  slightly differently shaped cases.  Or maybe a
different colour of
 plastic.  
 I fondly remember an issue of BYTE from long ago, that was the April 
 1st edition, that had a phoney advertisement in it for a 'Lemon 
 Computer' that looked suspiciously like an Apple ][ (with a rather 
 distressed and dissheveled user scratching his head . .).

 Wasn't that Creative Computing?.  Back in the late 70's they would do
 an "April fools" section of their magazine.  One year they printed it
 upside down at the back of the magazine so if you flipped it over, it
 looked like a different magazine. 