Who was first?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Jan 24 18:37:12 2004

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Brian Mahoney wrote:

> Might have been a tie.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible says that Columbia came up
> with an IBM clone in early 1982.
>
> Steve Weyhrich in his Apple history timeline puts the Franklin 100 (1000?)
> in March 1982.
> http://apple2history.org/history/appy/ahb3.html

It's the Franklin 100, which used ROMs copied from an Apple ][+, and
therefore violating Apple's copyrights. The 1000 was the later model that
had the "legal" ROMs.

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