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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
Holger Petersen wrote:
> Perhaps in Great Britain, but not that much in Germany.
> Here we had a large base of home-soldered or garage-built Apple-][-Clones.
> Made from Taiwanese boards. Mostly with a Z80-card as well as an 80-Char-
> Displaycard. And a lot of them without legal Apple-ROM's and CP/M...
> Some time later those Taiwanese made PC-clone boards. Changeover about
> 1985 (just looking those ads in a german Journal: CT 7/85).
Amstrads were relatively rare in the German home computer market, too,
which was dominated by the C-64 between 1983 and 1987, when the Amigas
and ST began to take over.
Speaking from personal experience: I got interested in computers in
1984, and ever since, have only seen one PCW in real life.
Regards,
Michael
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