14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
2:02 a.m.
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 10:40 PM PST Eric Smith wrote:
I'm not sure when "then" was, but I think
you've confused the company "eMachines" with the older UMAX/Supermac brand.
eMachines was from their inception a PC clone company. Through acquisitions, eMachines
was most recently an Acer brand, but has just been discontinued recently.
Eric
Nuh uh. The original emachines at least sold mac cards. Check ebay. I still have my old
Futura SX video card stuck in a IIcx.
14 Feb
14 Feb
9:06 a.m.
On Feb 14, 2013, at 2:02, Chris Tofu <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com> wrote:
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 10:40 PM PST Eric Smith wrote:
I have a Futura SX II in my basement along with the
original driver floppies. I have no idea whether the e-Machines
that made it is in any way related to the later one that Apple
sued when they started making candy-colored PC clones;
my suspicion is no, since I also have a vague (possibly
false) recollection that the Mac card company got
absorbed by Radius some time around the PowerPC
transition.
- Dave
I'm not sure when "then" was, but I
think you've confused the company "eMachines" with the older UMAX/Supermac
brand. eMachines was from their inception a PC clone company. Through acquisitions,
eMachines was most recently an Acer brand, but has just been discontinued recently.
Eric
Nuh uh. The original emachines at least sold mac cards. Check ebay. I still have my old
Futura SX video card stuck in a IIcx. 
10:17 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
I don't remember what it was. Leading Edge?
e-machine? Packard-Bell?
Some sort of freebie thrown at him by some company's marketing.
Chris Tofu wrote:
O bruther. E-Machines, if even around then, wasn't
making no clones.
They made Mac video cards and monitors. And I'll have you know my
Leading Edge/Sperry Model M runs rings around that Big Pyew. Supports
8" drives even maybe.
I wrote:
I'm not sure when "then" was, but I
think you've confused the company "eMachines" with the older UMAX/Supermac
brand. eMachines was from their inception a PC clone company. Through acquisitions,
eMachines was most recently an Acer brand, but has just been discontinued recently.
Chris Tofu wrote:
Nuh uh. The original emachines at least sold mac
cards. Check ebay. I
still have my old Futura SX video card stuck in a IIcx.
Which has nothing whatsoever to do with the *company* eMachines, which
did in fact, as Fred stated, produce PC clones.
10:55 a.m.
On 14 February 2013 15:17, Someone wrote:
Which has nothing whatsoever to do with the *company*
eMachines, which did
in fact, as Fred stated, produce PC clones.
I had one of those... the only non laptop PC I haven't built myself in
about 20 years. What a piece of crap.
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12:40 p.m.
[early POS]
> I don't remember what it was. Leading Edge?
e-machine? Packard-Bell?
> Some sort of freebie thrown at him by some company's marketing.
On Thu, 14
Feb 2013, Eric Smith wrote:
> I'm not sure when "then" was,
almost 30 years ago
He and I were on the "Advisory Committee" for CIS at Merritt College (the
next year, I got Jim Warren on), and I handed John a VERY pre-release copy
at the meeting. 1983?
Which has nothing whatsoever to do with the *company*
eMachines, which
did in fact, as Fred stated, produce PC clones.
but, probably not until a little later
My mother has one of their 466MHz Pentium machines. It still has the
marketing stickers on the front, such as specs and "NEVER OBSOLETE". I
will pay somebody $1 to take it away, but I will NOT ship it. OK, I will
throw in as much stuff as you can carry from the growing FPUIB collection.
The rest of which will go towards Sellam's rebuilding.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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