The first Mac clone

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This is a fascinating bit of history. Start with this Twitter thread by Steve Troughton-Smith:

Here’s a video showing the Daydream ROM Box at work. Nice find, Steve.

UPDATE: Loop emeritus Peter Cohen brought up the Outbound laptop and the fact that it deserved consideration as the first Mac clone. Fair point. Though the Outbound required you to bring your own ROM, which (at the time) meant removing the ROM from an existing and expensive Mac. I’d argue that the Outbound was more of a repurposing of an existing Mac, rather than a clone, but interesting nonetheless.