January 29, 1994: IBM Goes Mac?

January 29, 1994: IBM Goes Mac? - AppleMatters:

"Michael Spindler was strongly opposed to the notion of licensing Macs. Well, at least he was opposed to the idea until he announced that Apple expected to line up a major PC manufacturer to produce Mac clones.

The major PC manufacturer Spindler and Apple had in mind was IBM. It seemed like a natural marriage at the time; the PowerPC alliance was about to bear fruit and IBM was a third of the coalition."