On 8/16/15 11:11 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:48:58 -0600,

J Burns wrote:

The only Mac I know that needed a PRAM battery to start wasn't made by
Apple. It was the Tanzania-based StarMax, a Motorola clone. It's also

Does this mean they made them in Tanzania? The country made up of
Tanganyika and Zanzibar? I don't think of that place as a high-tech
place, or even manufacturing.


It was Sculley's idea, an Apple motherboard that used some PC parts. I'm
not at liberty to confirm or deny that they were made in the VIP suit at
the Starmax hotel.
http://www.zoomtanzania.com/Starmax-Hotel

Jobs was away building the NEXT computer, which Sir TimBL used to invent
the World Wide Web. He came back in 1997 and scuttled the Tanzania
project. PC parts in a Mac? Heresy!