Re: Off Topic - BBC Micro Books

[Calibrator <calibrator@freenet.de>]

On 24 Nov., 16:05, Eric Rucker <bhtoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 Amiga 500/2000 series.
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