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		flohofwoe on Nov 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Coming Crisis in Home Computers (1983) I'd say the UK was into Acorn and Sinclair, not (Western-)Europe as a whole. The situation was very different per country (e.g. the Acorn Atom was quite popular in the Netherlands, but AFAIK nowhere else on the continent). In (Western-)Germany it was mainly Commodore (C64 and Amiga), and apparently(?) Amstrad CPC were quite popular in France and Spain. Eastern Europe was either ZX Spectrum clones, or "domestic designs", mostly based on Z80 CPU clones, but also some 6502 based machines (e.g. an Apple II clone) in Bulgaria.

coldtea on Nov 18, 2018 | [–]

>Amstrad CPC were quite popular in France and Spain

And in Britain and other european countries as well...

mprev on Nov 18, 2018 | [–]

Afaicr, the Amstrads were distributed under the Schneider brand in some non-UK countries.

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