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		sleepybrett 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the bel... Growing up my friend had one (a 500), I don't remember finding anything in my pile of pirated floppies that he couldn't run.

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justin66 6 days ago [–]

I assume they used clean-room techniques after those were judged by the courts to be viable. I wonder if that happened because of Franklin's efforts or because of what happened in the IBM PC clone industry.

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