"Surprisingly, it wasn’t a PC clone-maker that forced the question, but one making Apple II machines." There were far more cloners than mentioned in the articl

"Surprisingly, it wasn’t a PC clone-maker that forced the question, but one making Apple II machines." There were far more cloners than mentioned in the article. My second computer was a Apple][e clone shipped in parts from South East Asia mixed in a consignment from Rockwell Collins. The cost, that magical $2000 dollar mark. The parts were re-assembled and that's what I used from High School into my early Uni days until I started using PCs, punchcards and Vt100/Mainframe to learn programming. With a Z80 card, 80 Column card money was made off this machine spitting out resumes via a dot-matrix printer and a large supply of spooled paper. If I remember correctly the shell was a direct clone of the 2e chassis. The operating system was a direct clone. Most of my software was cloned and that's were I learned how to program 6502 machine language to interface with hardware. [0] Reference [0] Marvin L. De Jong, "Apple II Assembly Language" https://www.amazon.com/Marvin-L.De-Jong/e/B001H6SRHE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 https://www.amazon.com/Marvin-L.De-Jong/e/B001H6SRHE/ref=dp_...