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beckerdo | 4 years ago

Weren't the IBM Ambra, Aptiva, and Vista brands efforts by IBM to out clone the clones? As I remember, these IBM brands from the 1990s gave the impression of an IBM computer, but they were all made by third-party companies.

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justinlloyd|4 years ago

I believe you are correct, and they had the perfect little IBM logo slapped on them to make everyone believe that. Those were found throughout banks in the UK for the longest time. I am not sure those machines in the image are IBMs, but the case is very reminiscient of IBM's machines. We know they aren't Dell (wrong logo placement) and we know they aren't Compaq (wrong size/shape logo). But this is a minor detail, clones or IBMs isn't really relevant.