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Article #26048Re: Tandy Mac Clone?
From: Bruce Hoof
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1988 19:44
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1988 19:44
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In article <327@nikhefk.UUCP> paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) writes:
>In article <525@psu-cs.UUCP>, hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) writes:
>> In article <1044@sask.UUCP> tubman@sask.UUCP (Jim Tubman) writes:
>> >
>> >This talk of Tandy producing a Macintosh clone doesn't sound completely
>> >absurd. The programmer's interface to the Macintosh is very well specified
>> >in terms of operating system calls, and it would surely be no great trick to
>> >read and write Mac disks. Tandy is a big enough company that it could put
>> >the appropriate resources into reverse-engineering the Mac OS, and into any
>> >resulting legal battle.
>>
>> I love the rumors that fly around!!! But this one is hard to believe.
>> A couple of weeks ago someone noted that Tandy was looking for
>> Macintosh programmers. I poked around and discovered that Tandy is
>> going to do something with The Appletalk network. This sounds like a
>> smooth thing to do. After all PC's connect to the appletalk network.
>
>I've heard rumours of Tandy cloning the Mac II before. The product code
>name was something like 'Black Sword' ('Black something anyway).
>
>So it might not just be the AppleTalk project (do they need
>680x0 programmers for just that?)... what an interesting world
>we live in ;)
To speculate some more Tandy could be writing Mac software to
interface with there DeskMate software, that come with all their computers,
through the AppleTalk network?.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!hoofb From: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Tandy Mac Clone? Message-ID: <534@psu-cs.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 88 19:44:44 GMT References: <1044@sask.UUCP> <525@psu-cs.UUCP> <327@nikhefk.UUCP> Reply-To: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR Lines: 49