Early Mac Clones

From: Tom Owad <tomowad_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat Jun 6 15:56:31 1998

I'm reading _Build Your Own Macintosh and Save a Bundle_ and it has an
interesting reference to early Mac clones. The book states:

"The same Apple Macintosh Powerbooks that legitimized the whole Macintosh
portable area have spelled the death knell for most other third-party
Macintosh portable builders who cannot compete with Apple's overwhelming
manufacturing economies of scale. While Outbound continues to
flourish-thanks to a wisely forged legal agreement and clever positioning
of their Macintosh portable models versus the Apple Powerbooks-I question
their long-term staying power. Most other third-party Macintosh portable
vendors have either gone out of business entirely or have quietly dropped
their portable offerings."

Does anybody know anything about these "thrid-party Macintoshes?" I'm
familiar with the Outbound computers, I have never even heard of any
other early Mac clones. Any info?

Thanks,
Tom Owad
Received on Sat Jun 06 1998 - 15:56:31 BST