Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["Ross Simpson" <yeah_whatever>]

"Michael J. Sch�lke" <news0301@mjschuelke.de> wrote in message...

> > 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.

That kind of statement suprises me actually, because after the UK & France
(where the CPC was very popular), Germany was usually the other country
(that springs to mind) where German Fanzines & Public Domain librarys
emerged from. Which is why I originally thought Germany was another good
country for the Amstrad. Though the CPC & PCW are two slightly different
machines, would it be possible for the PCW to do worse (than what the CPC
did) there?

Regards,
Ross.