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Home 🍎 News 🍎 ZDNet posts article on how communist-era clones of the Apple II influenced today’s technologists
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ZDNet posts article on how communist-era clones of the Apple II influenced today’s technologists

by a2fan February 12, 2016April 3, 2023

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ZDNet has posted an interesting story on how clones of popular computers (notably, copies of the Apple II) built during the communist era have influenced today’s technologists in Bulgaria, Romania and other former Soviet Bloc countries. Even today, the Apple II Community is benefiting; Plamen Vayssilov’s A2Heaven.com is a great example.

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