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http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ro.html http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ro.html Both were unlicensed clones. HC's were made by a compan
by qbrass 9y ago
http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ro.html http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ro.html
Both were unlicensed clones.
HC's were made by a company to sell to business. Cobras were designed by a university and built by the same company as the HC's for school and possibly business use.
The computer in the story is an unlicensed copy of the school's unlicensed Speccy clone. I don't know if the university was cracking down because they were losing sales, or if the government was cracking down on non-business use, or if it was just the cops busting people with stolen computer parts.
- acqq 9y agoThanks for the linked page, to me it explains the context much better than the article.
- int_19h 9y agoI don't know much about socialist Romania, but if they were like USSR, the crime would be 1) stealing the parts to make the computers, and 2) actually selling them. The Soviet criminal code actually had an article in it titled "Private business activity and commercial brokerage".