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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)
6 points by bmonkey325 1 day ago | 3 comments


  • Acomjean 17 hours 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 1 day 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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  • barbeque 1 day 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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