On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 14:59, 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.
I AM NO EXPERT on this, but I'd like to point out that the meaning of
"compatible" was far more slippery then than now. AFAIK the Phoenix BIOS
was the first true compatible (eg. the number of incompatibilities was
very, very small). The early Compaq machines were considered
"compatible" even though they did not have 100% ROM compatibility, and
the video interface was different. A lot of software in '82 - '84 used
things like int 10h to talk video to 25x80 mono screens, don't forget...
and that's trivial to do (eg. on my Multibuss/TVI-950 MSDOS 3 machine!)
>
> Steve Weyhrich in his Apple history timeline puts the Franklin 100 (1000?)
> in March 1982.
> http://apple2history.org/history/appy/ahb3.html
> Brian
>
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> > > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Curt vendel wrote:
> > >
> > > > I had always thought Lazer was the first Apple Clone??? We
> > > used to have
> > > > more of those then real Apple ]['s in college back in 84-88
> > >
> > > Franklin, I believe, came out with the "first" (as far as is known)
> Apple
> > > ][ clone.
> >
> > Aye, and they were the first to get sued by Apple for doing so :)
> >
> > w
> >
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