7 Jun
1998
7 Jun
'98
7:42 p.m.
bit hard getting a mac into a pc case though, remember that macs have all
the connectors on board,
desie
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 5:41
Subject: Re: Early Mac Clones
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Tom Owad wrote:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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:
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12:45 p.m.
bit hard getting a mac into a pc case though, remember
that macs have all
the connectors on board,
desie
Can't be any worse than the people that put Atari's or Amiga's in a PC
case. I've seen a Atari TT030 in a PC Tower, and it's quite popular among
Amiga people to tower their A1200's. All it takes is some creative cabling.
Zane
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10 Jun
10 Jun
3:16 p.m.
Desie Hay wrote:
bit hard getting a mac into a pc case though, remember that macs have all
the connectors on board,
desie
So do most PC motherboards. So when you put a "modern" PC
motherboard (ACX or whatever it's called) into (say) the chassis of
an old AT&T 6386E (the original motherboard makes a truly spiffy
decoration nailed to the wall), you use extension cables to the card
slots the way the extra serial ports have gone in PC clones since
Day One.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 5:41
Subject: Re: Early Mac Clones
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Tom Owad wrote:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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:
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>Ever onward.
>
> September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2
> See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
> [Last web page update: 05/30/98]
>
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