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From: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jonathan (Macintosh Clone for somewhat more than $1000!)
Message-ID: <42494260.17b76@puffin.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 89 04:28:00 GMT
References: <530@umiami.miami.edu> <7423@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering
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In article <7423@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero) writes:
>
>On the cover of the 21 March 1989 MacWEEK we have a picture of Akkord
>Technologies' Jonathan, a Macintosh clone which currently requires the
>128K ROMS from a real Mac but which apart from that is ready to roll.
>There's talk of them introducing it here in the US in the next few
>months, and it wass at CeBIT in Hanover last(?) week.  The manufacturer,
>a Taiwanese company, is looking at cloned Mac ROMS-- supposedly created
>'cleanly,' without reference to Apple's own-- as well.  
>
>Given the success of Phoenix, Award and DTK among others at cloning the
>PC BIOS withough legal problems, I don't see how Apple can deal with
>the cloned Mac ROMS through the usual lawsuits, unless they can
>demonstrate the 'uncleanness' of the ROMS.
>
>-Antonio Romero    romero@confidence.princeton.edu

Later on in the article it said something about how the company was getting
the ROMs off old boards that had been turned in to Apple after upgrades or
board replacements.  They are actually Apple ROMs.

One thing I found interesting was that they covered over the Apple in the DA
menu with a sticker on the screen that looked like a tomato!  Copyrights make
people do strange things.

-Ace