Word: clones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm had been expected to strike back at its competitors either by dropping prices so low as to drive them out of business or by raising such formidable technical barriers against copycats as to make the new machines impossible to imitate. They did neither. "These are not clone killers," said John Roach, chairman of Tandy Corp., which has sold about a quarter of a million PC knockoffs. "We're thrilled that IBM has left our turf alone...
Sellars obeys that old saw among directors pressed to be innovative: "When in doubt, update." Caesar is now the President of the US, Ptolemy is young Khaddaffi clone, the stage is a partially completed Hotel Cairo (the orchestra pit doubles as a swimming pool), and references to oil politics, game shows, and Navy musicals are bandied about with anachronistic glee...
...Next Move Theater. We have the again chantuese "who during the Eisenhower Administration never once saw daylight," the young star, the happy go lucky group of kids who are down on their luck but gotta lot of heart, and best of all, the cynical, street-wise, cliche-spouting Bogart-clone, Buck Holden, who smokes a cigarette like it's part of his lip. Imagine--in those days they didn't even know about emphysema...
Unfortunately, the answer is none of the above. The Girl in the Picture has its funny moments, but writer-director Parker's Forsyth clone doesn't measure up to the original product...
...makers of IBM-compatibles simply clone the features from the PC. Chatsworth, Calif.-based Tandon, which originally built disk drives for IBM, announced last week that it would begin marketing an IBM-compatible that features its own integrated circuit technology. Tandon, which expects to charge $1,155 for its new machine, is able to curb costs by manufacturing some of its components at plants in India...