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Re: The apple 2, the PC, and the clones



guy-jin wrote:

Been reading up on computer history, and found out about how the PC
clones got started. Some company named pheonix managed to make a legal
IBM PC clone. My question is, why did no one ever make a legal apple 2
clone?


There were at least two here in the United States, the Laser, and the later Franklin models. There may have been others.

BTW - Phoenix didn't create a clone of the IBM, they "white roomed" the IBM BIOS.

Roy