It's funny: I was thinking about a reply to your post when I noticed Hal's response (I read both on my iPod, but don't like to use that for more than a brief reply). My take on Hal's posts was that his reservations were about (making) clones of a running boot volume, not so much about clones in general. After rereading those post I still think that way, and the funny thing of course is that neither you nor Hal don't quite seem to. Shows you how easy it can be to misunderstand each other.
And that's another reason for my post: although I understand how one might view this otherwise, I took Hal's comment about not having seen you at MFIF at face value, and not as the slight you may have taken it for.
As to your original Mac, I bought one too in early '84, but I recall paying about 3K (US) for it including Apple printer and (later) external floppy drive. Your 5K must have been Canadian, right?
