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Usually the clones didn't have any Apple branding on the outside of the case. The ROMs would also be modified to not include the word Apple. However, that was
by jandrese 3y ago
Usually the clones didn't have any Apple branding on the outside of the case. The ROMs would also be modified to not include the word Apple. However, that was usually about the extent of the changes on the ROMs, the rest were direct copies of the Apple II ROM.
There were a couple of companies that reverse engineered the ROMs and created clean room copies. Apple still sued them, but they lost in court. Franklin Computer sold a lot of legal Apple II clones in the US for example.
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