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   Can a Power Computing clone upgrade to Mac OS 8?

   • Anyone who had a Power Computing Macintosh clone was given a free upgrade up to Mac OS 8.1 by Apple under the Power Computing name. Ironically, this made Power Computing one of two Macintosh clones to get a Mac OS 8 upgrade disk (the other was UMAX, which got it under an agreement with Apple).

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   Does Power Computing clone a Mac?

   • "Macworld - Power Computing Offers New Mac Clone" 11 January 1996 Ryer, Kelly and Pearlstein, Joanna. "Power halts meltdown after operations crisis." MacWeek 25 March 1996 Carlton, Jim. "Power Computing Gains Towering Presence as Cloner --- CEO `King Kahng' Snatches Some of Apple's Revenue as It Copies the Mac." The Wall Street Journal 20 May 1996

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   What happened to the Mac clone business?

   • The Mac clone business was stopped after Steve Jobs returned as interim CEO of Apple in July 1997. In September, Apple bought the core assets of Power Computing for $100 million in Apple stock and terminated the Mac cloning business.

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   What is a Macintosh clone?

   • A Macintosh clone is a computer running the Mac OS operating system that was not produced by Apple Inc. The earliest Mac clones were based on emulators and reverse-engineered Macintosh ROMs.

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2. everymac.com › systems › powerccPowerComputing Mac Clones (Power Computing Mac Clones ...

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   Technical specifications for the PowerComputing Mac Clones. Includes production dates, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, retail prices, and more.

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   Power Computing was the first company to sell $1,000,000 of products on the Internet. Power Computing released upgraded models until 1997 with revenues reaching $400 million a year. The Mac clone business was stopped after Steve Jobs returned as interim CEO of Apple in July 1997. In September, Apple bought the core assets of Power Computing for ...

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   Apple bought Power Computing's Mac clone business for US$100,000,000 (equivalent to $189,800,995 in 2023) and gave their users free Mac OS 8 upgrade disks, ending the clone era. Only UMAX ever obtained a license to ship Mac OS 8 and get Mac OS 8 upgrade disks, which expired in July 1998 (Power Computing also got Mac OS 8 disks by their ...

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6. www.cultofmac.com › 440940 › today-in-apple-history-begiToday in Apple history: Beginning of the end for clone Macs

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   Aug 5, 2023 · August 5, 1997: Apple gets into a standoff with Power Computing, a maker of Macintosh clones. It marks the beginning of the end for Apple’s mid-’90s strategy of licensing the Mac...

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   Dec 16, 2023 · In the end, Apple settled the deal by buying Power Computing’s Mac business for $100 million. That brought an end to the Macintosh clone era. It also cleared the way for the return of...

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   And it then made the mistake of letting the Mac clone makers produce pro computers—such as the Power Computing PowerTower Pro—more powerful than Apple’s own and with a proper Pro Power name ...