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30 years ago, Apple fans met the Mac clone. This is the weird, wild story (historical apple mac clones) (macworld.com)
7 points by bmonkey325 21 days ago | 4 comments


  • Acomjean 19 days ago
    My first Mac was a tower Power pro. It was quite good. I upgraded it (even the cpu if I recall.. g3 PowerPC?).

    It was my first Mac purchase. I remember I got a physical letter from Apple with a Steve Jobs business card welcoming me into the Apple fold after they were bought out.

    Of course power computing had a “stopped for speeding” ad.

    One of the interesting things about that machine is I could boot into BeOS.

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  • nickt 20 days ago
    I’ve just bought a Power Computing PowerBase 180, seems like a decent machine so far.

    That deal for $100MM in APPL in 1997 though. What a horrible ROI as it’s only worth $37B today.

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  • repixer 18 days ago
    One of the attempts of now-defunct graphics hardware maker Radius, Inc. to stave off bankruptcy was to become the first holder of an Apple clone license. They produced two models before giving up. I have one, the Radius 81/110. It's a close copy of Apple's 81/110, and served me well for several years before I retired it in favor of a Power Macintosh 9600/350.
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  • barbeque 20 days ago
    I've still got my early Power Computing clone: I was actually just doing some maintenance on it. Great machines for a good price.
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