Re: Off Topic - BBC Micro Books

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 24 nov, 18:49, Calibrator <calibra...@freenet.de> wrote:
> On 24 Nov., 16:05, Eric Rucker <bhtoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > And, of course, they didn't market the damn thing much outside of the
> > UK. I know it did get sold in Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, and
> > I'd be surprised if it wans't sold in Italy (Olivetti owned them at
> > the time.)
>
> In Germany they never did well. There were some specialized
> shops and clubs but the Archimedes was no contender to the
> Atari ST and, later, the Amiga500/2000series.
> The Apple IIgs didn't do well either as it was very expensive and
> most people didn't have an Apple II+/e/c upgrade path anyway.
>
> Then the PCs came and all other systems, except the Mac, died
> more or less quickly. Commodore and Atari at least tried to fight
> - though much can be said about their marketing and technical
> decisions - but Acorn never really entered the battlefield... ;-)
>
> bye
> Marcus

it was sold in France too and made the cover of the IT magazine SVM.
it was a very powerful engineers' computer with few software.


antoine