gfj@homxc.UUCP (G.JOHNSON) (11/09/87)
I tend not to believe rumors until they really come true but has anyone heard any info regarding the rumor section in MacUser where someone claims Tandy is building a Mac II compatible and it will sell for $1500 less than Apple's? Garrett Johnson ================================================== DISCLAIMER: I really wish the things I think were important enough to have a disclaimer put on them. =================================================
dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (11/11/87)
I don't put much stock in MacUser rumors. It might be informative to look through back issues and see how many of their rumors were PURE fantasy. I remember a ``MacWrite 5.0'' ruler they printed once... Anyway, I'd like to start a rumor that apple will sue the pants off Tandy for look-and-feel violations when Tandy comes out with a Mac II clone. As for the truth of my rumor, I GUARANTEE that if MacUser's rumor is true, so is mine--after all, apple went after GEM for a garbage can...:-) ---- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: ihnp4!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 333-3339
cramer%clem@Sun.COM (Sam Cramer) (11/13/87)
In article <174400068@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >I don't put much stock in MacUser rumors. It might be informative to look >through back issues and see how many of their rumors were PURE fantasy. >I remember a ``MacWrite 5.0'' ruler they printed once... Remember the MacUser rumor about spherical disk drives (repeated in several issues)? What drugs were they on when they dreamed that one up? Sam Cramer {cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!cramer cramer@sun.com
dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (11/17/87)
I wrote: >I don't put much stock in MacUser rumors. It might be informative to look >through back issues and see how many of their rumors were PURE fantasy. >I remember a ``MacWrite 5.0'' ruler they printed once... Well, while I stand by my point, a kind person mailed me that he had actually SEEN said ruler operating in an escaped copy of a souped-up version of MacWrite. So I guess MacUser got THAT one right, anyway. BTW, the person asked not to be identified. Said something about Jimmy Hoffa being hidden in the developer's basement or something :-). ---- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: ihnp4!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 333-3339
arya@eros.Berkeley.EDU (Manish Arya) (02/25/89)
A friend of mine heard that two companies (in Taiwan?) manufacture LEGAL macintosh clones. Could there be any truth to this? If so, does anyone know the names & phone numbers of the companies? - Manish Arya arya@ernie.Berkeley.EDU
melby@s.cs.uiuc.edu (02/28/89)
I don't know much about the Taiwanese Mac clones, although they were mentioned a lot on a particular BBS in Yokohama during January, when a shop in Akihabara put one of the clones on exhibit. I doubt that they can be imported to the U.S. - it seems that the manufacture of clones of just about any sort is legal in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong, since they haven't signed the international copyright agreement. The posession (although not the manufacture) of clones made in violation of international copyright is legal in countries such as Japan and New Zealand but not in the United States.
jeff@wdl1.UUCP (Jonathan J Jefferies) (05/06/89)
MAC CLONES:: are they real I vaugely remember reading recently < in EE Times perhaps> that someone was importing MACINTOSH clones. The article went on to say that the boards were in production but what was needed was a non-Apple BIOS or workbox rom set. The question is this: is anyone aware of where such boards can be located? I have a partially destroyed MAC and would like to replace it. The roms may be the only part functional. Thanks jeff@WDL-1