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   RM>> There were Chinese shops in Toronto that had replica cases and carried   
     >> all the parts needed. The motherboards were made in Toronto and were   
     >> better quality than the genuine Apple parts with things like gold   
     >> plated sockets for chips and such, and the boards could handle more   
     >> RAM than 'real' Apples could. (80k instead of 48k upgradable to 64k.)   
      
   MP>Sweet.  I wonder if such things were available in the US then, or if   
     >"controls" prevented them from being so?   
      
   MP>Maybe an American who knows more about Apple from back then would have to   
     >answer that one.  ;)   
      
   I'm sure these little Chinese stores were everywhere - run by recent   
   Chinese immigrants and selling a lot of electronics directly from   
   China - and the whole idea of clones was technically illegal everywhere   
   but it was quite common. Back then over about a 5 year period I had   
   3 Apple systems and 2 PC type systems and they were all built from   
   mostly cloned parts.   
      
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