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From: merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tandy Mac Clone?
Message-ID: <8322@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 88 17:52:43 GMT
References: <1044@sask.UUCP> <525@psu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY
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In article <525@psu-cs.UUCP>, Bruce Hoof writes:
> 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.

Tandy's scheme, from what I understand, is to build their own AppleTalk card
for networking their PCs.  So that it won't be AppleTalk, it'll be TandyNet.
And if you plug a Macintosh into the network, well, yeah, it'll work.  This
way, Macintoshes work on TandyNet, not the other way around...  :^)

Personally, my favourite rumour (and I can't remember where I read this) is
that Tandy is planning to come out with a Macintosh clone this fall, but Texas
Instruments is going to beat them to it.  I can see it now:  The TI/99 Model
II.  The rumour said look for a summer release.

Also, I have midshipmen here who are going to Brazil this fall.  I hope to
have them pick me up a Macintosh clone from that place in Brazil that makes
clones all over the place.  Hell, even if I can't get it repaired or upgraded,
it should still be a hell of a conversation piece.
---
"I get weak..."                        Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)

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