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Re: check out these industrial strength apple II's
- Subject: Re: check out these industrial strength apple II's
- From: Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 05:31:16 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:07:43 +0200, Patrick Schaefer wrote:
> Ernest schrieb:
>
>> I'm guessing that these were used as some sort of factory process
>> controller/monitors. Anyone have any other theories?
>
> These are D.I.Y. cases. In the 80s you could buy a Taiwanese "Apple"
> board for around $300 (or the empty pcb for $50). "Apple II"-style cases
> were available, but most people preferred the "IBM-PC" look or 19"
> racks.
>
> Taiwanese boards were sold with 48k (a clone of the Rev7 Apple ][plus),
> with 64k and an additional Z80 cpu, and as a clone of the NTSC Rev A IIe
> with an additional DIP-16 connector for the IIplus Keyboard.
>
> In Europe Apple clones made nearly 75% of the market share, Apple's
> lawyers were too far away to stop this.
>
>
> Patrick
They shouldn't have stopped it anyway if Apple had allowed cloning the PC and
Micro$oft might not rule the roost.
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