Radio Shack was pretty big in the UK. I remember them having stores when I was a kid. I think the general macro-economic and social conditions may explain why

Radio Shack was pretty big in the UK. I remember them having stores when I was a kid. I think the general macro-economic and social conditions may explain why Acorn was rare, whereas the US birthed many such companies. But then again, the UK has less than a quarter of the population of the USA, so presumably that right there should slash the number of companies. I've also done a focus switch in this discussion, from all of Europe to just the UK. The rest of Europe was still very messed up outside of west Germany and the small northern states, either dictatorships, or just exited from dictatorship, or were France: https://uramericansinparis.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/france-in-the-1970s-%E2%80%93-a-time-of-decline-doubt-and-anti-americanism/ https://uramericansinparis.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/france-i... West Germany gave birth to SAP in 1972, UK gave birth to Acorn and a few other small computer firms that didn't really make it, only SAP and ARM still survive and only one independent. I don't know of any big French tech firms from this era, but maybe there is one. So I guess Acorn and maybe SAP are the exceptions that highlight just how dire conditions were in most of Europe at this time.