Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!nikhefk!paulm
From: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tandy Mac Clone?
Message-ID: <327@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 09:05:13 GMT
References: <1044@sask.UUCP> <525@psu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
Lines: 35
Summary: Unlikely?

In article <525@psu-cs.UUCP>, hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) writes:
> In article <1044@sask.UUCP> tubman@sask.UUCP (Jim Tubman) writes:
> >
> >This talk of Tandy producing a Macintosh clone doesn't sound completely
> >absurd.  The programmer's interface to the Macintosh is very well specified
> >in terms of operating system calls, and it would surely be no great trick to
> >read and write Mac disks.  Tandy is a big enough company that it could put
> >the appropriate resources into reverse-engineering the Mac OS, and into any
> >resulting legal battle.
> 
> I love the rumors that fly around!!!  But this one is hard to believe.
> A couple of weeks ago someone noted that Tandy was looking for
> Macintosh programmers.  I poked around and discovered that Tandy is
> going to do something with The Appletalk network.  This sounds like a
> smooth thing to do.  After all PC's connect to the appletalk network.

I've heard rumours of Tandy cloning the Mac II before. The product code
name was something like 'Black Sword' ('Black something anyway).

So it might not just be the AppleTalk project (do they need
680x0 programmers for just that?)... what an interesting world
we live in ;)

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        Paul Molenaar

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