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From: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apology to APPLE
Message-ID: <25D5FC96.14034@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 00:00:22 GMT
References: <1990Jan31.024145.1099@NCoast.ORG> <948@tahoma.UUCP> <1990Feb9.020114.15756@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In article <1990Feb9.020114.15756@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>As quoted from <948@tahoma.UUCP> by prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg):
>+---------------
>| (c'est moi:)
>| > How quickly we forget.  Anyone else remember the Franklin ACE I (and the
>| > lawsuit)?
>| 
>| Central Point (market's the Laser 128) has already gone the lawsuit route
>| with Apple, AND WON!!  They reverse engineered it and did a much better job
>| than the ACE.  They've been putting out the Laser for enough years now that
>| I wouldn't worry about it going away.  Obviously you haven't been following
>| this situation.
>+---------------
>
>How quickly we make assumptions, as well... I *am* aware of the Laser 128 and
>its implications; my point about the lawsuit was that it was considered a "big
>thing" (locally, at least) when it happened, but now some people "aren't aware
>of any Apple clones".
>
>++Brandon

Chill guys,

I assumed at the time I read the original posting that the writer was asking
about Apple *Mac* clones.  Esp since Apple doesn't make the IIe anymore, which
is what I remember the Franklin Ace is a clone of.  I am not aware of any Mac
clones currently on the market.  I am very interested in finding out about
them though!!  (A cheap cx would be great!)

Alex Jauch
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu