Re: Laser 128

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Bryan Villados wrote:
> 
> In article <pu0l5.201$hg.19279@dca1-nnrp2.news.digex.net>, Frank
> Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
> 
> > Just got one of these machines.
> >
> > Aside from the build quality which is middling, really a fairly elegant
> > machine, and quite fast.  Very configurable (not saying much, I suppose, in
> > comparison to the closed box design of the IIc).
> >
> > Kind of like an expandable IIc Plus.
> 
> What I thought was cool about the Laser 128 is their expansion cabinet
> (sold separately), which could hold one or more Apple II-compatible
> cards.
> 
> But to twist the subject a bit... I lack quite a bit of information
> about the legal matters of the Laser 128. I was wondering why the Laser
> 128 was able to be manufactured in the early 90's when Franklin was
> shot down quickly for doing the same thing in the early 80's, that is
> manufacturer an Apple II clone? Did the people who made the Laser 128
> approach the box differently than that of Franklin?
>
Err...was it because Franklin copied the Apple ][ ROM software, and the
Laser people wrote their own ROM software???


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