Early Mac Clones

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Mon Jun 8 02:38:17 1998

On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Tom Owad wrote:

> What edition do you have? My 2nd edition book says a listing of clones
> is given in edition 1, as oppose to just saying they exist. I'd love to
> get a list of old Mac clones.

I made a timely find today of the first edition of _Build Your Own
Macintosh and Save a Bundle_. In Chapter 2 it has a price comparison
between the clone "Cat" Mac and the real Mac. The computers it lists are:

Cat Mac SE
Cat Mac SE 30
Cat Mac II
Cat Mac IIfx
Cat Mac IIcx
Cat Mac IIci

It will indeed be interesting if I ever find one of these homebrew clones
(For the curious, the book basically tells you to buy Mac motherboards and
parts from third-party suppliers and stick them in a PC case. That's it.)
They would be hard to spot since I don't even give a first look to PC
clone boxes. There's not really anything special about them anyway, other
than the fact that it is novel.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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