Yeah, looting has consequences. The UK did OK - Acorn launched the Archimedes in 1987 (without a parade) - but the rest of Western Europe was never really a pe

Yeah, looting has consequences. The UK did OK - Acorn launched the Archimedes in 1987 (without a parade) - but the rest of Western Europe was never really a personal computer or IC design powerhouse either. Commodore did some assembly in Germany, and I remember being appalled by the large display of obviously horrible Thomson home computers at a department store in Germany in the mid-eighties. The store's buyer must have been out of his or her mind to stock them, or just entranced by the light pen, but apparently they were big in France.