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From: melby@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac clones
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Date: 27 Feb 89 23:05:00 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!melby    Feb 27 17:05:00 1989


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.