Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 'supercomputer' in 1999, 'for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon' — Pentagon banned sales o...

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Original Title: Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 ‘supercomputer’ in 1999, ‘for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon’ — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launched

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