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Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing

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64 points shortformblog | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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inetknght ◴[06 Sep 25 04:16 UTC] No.45146566[source]▶
My dad worked at Motorola at the time. He told a story where Motorola security walked Steve Jobs off of the premesis. Bad times.

Anyway, my dad worked on the machines that built/tested the motherboard for motorola's clones. He'd bring home some of the broken ones that were supposed to be dumped, and he'd fix them up. I had a top-notch StarMax running some ad-hoc fixes and upgrades. Pretty sweet machine until I finally got a job and bought a Windows machine. It still works today, except that the IDE drive. I could buy a new IDE drive (if I could even find one) but the total horsepower of the machine is less than even a raspberry pi these days, and not worth the power consumption.

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FirmwareBurner ◴[06 Sep 25 12:31 UTC] No.45148714[source]▶
>Motorola security walked Steve Jobs off of the premesis

Do you know why? Sounds like a story everyone would be interested to hear.

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inetknght ◴[06 Sep 25 16:09 UTC] No.45150500[source]▶
No, I don't know/remember why. But it was shortly after that when mac clones stopped being a thing.
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FirmwareBurner ◴[06 Sep 25 17:25 UTC] No.45151169[source]▶
Using security to escort Steve Jobs out seems a bit extreme, no? Were they afraid he was gonna steal or break something on his way out or what lol
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1. trenchpilgrim ◴[06 Sep 25 20:41 UTC] No.45152674{3}[source]▶
When I worked at $BIGCORP it was corporate policy that all visitors needed to be escorted out of the building, but this was usually done by one of the employees they had come to meet with, not security.