Re: Apple II plus clone?

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In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1211040940340.21362@darkstar.example.org>,
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> 
> There was a division.  I gather the Commodore PET did well in the UK 
> and/or Europe, while the Apple didn't make many inroads.  On ther other 
> hand, there were certainly enough designed and built in the UK computers 
> to make up for lack of imports.  I know less about what was home grown in 
> Europe.

In England you mainly had the rubbish from Sinclair (which also made it to
America under the Timex name I think) - ZX80, ZX81, and Spectrum. Hopeless
things with disgusting keyboards that were really only toys rather than
real computers.

There were a huge number of brands around back around the time of the
Commodore VIC 20 ... and most of them were utter rubbish (Pencil II, in
Australia / New Zeland there was the Dick Smith Wizard, etc.). I've still
got a folder of advertising material from around that time, but I think I
threw out all the stuff from the rubbish brands years ago.

In America, as well as Commodore, you had the Texas Instruments computers.