At 12:02 AM 5/12/01 +0400, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

>Brad,
>
>You should't forget about the cold war and the Curtain. In those old days we
>dealt with a technical equipment made in Eastern Europe and Russia only.
>Thus and so I'm familiar with Robotrons and ZXs as well as with a few native
>ones, but other names look to be unknown to me. Maybe I saw some of them in
>the press but I'm not sure. So I think you could forgive my ignorance of
>these brands :-)
>

The TRS-80 was almost universally known as the Trash-80 and had
approximately 1/4 the computing power of a modern dishwasher.

Jim Starkey