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Re: Mimic Spartan(s) for me!
- Subject: Re: Mimic Spartan(s) for me!
- From: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 20:43:57 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: SBC Internet Services
- References: <T72L6.4274$la.54327@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>
- Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.sys.apple2:7857
Ernest writes ...
>
> Here's an interesting story. I'm sitting at lunch with our director of
> technologies, and I mentioned to him that I was planning to go up to Canada
> next saturday to pick up some Apple II clones, and he proceedes to tell me
> about a project that he worked on in the mid '80's called the Mimic Spartan.
> (see the link below.)
>
> http://www.applefritter.com/appleclones/spartan/index.html
>
> It turns out that he (Derick Smith) was one of the original developers of
> this project, and that he has several boxes of Spartan proto-type boards,
> ROMs, notebooks, about it's developement -and a couple of the actual
> devices, still in their shipping boxes, with the display boxes inside.
....
Nice A2 clone web page! The Spartan is an interesting machine-- kind of
like what we might do to come up with an upgrade for the IIgs.
Rubywand