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To: Bilow who wrote (78406)11/2/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Respond to of 1584287
 
Carl, At first it was legal to sell bare boards, then Apple won a court case that called that 'contributory infringement' in the USA. Still legal in Canada as there are differences in the laws, however Apple clones died when IBM clones came along...legal and cheaper.
I recall the bad sockets. What we did was wave solder the boards with all passive parts and antiwicking sockets and all the buyer needed as a case, power supply and some TTL, a sea of TTL. Sold wave soldered megaboards, 286 machines from Texas as well. Then auto assembled Taiwanese boards got so cheap that that business died...and I got a good offer from a chinese guy to buy the business as he had offshore contacts.
Bill