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Spain used to have an extra import tax on home computers with <=64KB RAM. One manufacturer got around it by including an extra 8KB chip on a daughterboard (not

Spain used to have an extra import tax on home computers with <=64KB RAM. One manufacturer got around it by including an extra 8KB chip on a daughterboard (not electrically connected at all!) to increase the RAM to 72KB and avoid the tax.

ilyt 4y ago
...Why would they tax extra ones with smaller memory ? Was there actual reason specified somewhere ?
- Rarok 4y ago
  It's said that the tax was for every computing machine but big companies pressured the government to remove it and what the government did was only tax microcomputers and not systems like mainframes and such. The computer with the 72KB was the Amstrad CPC472 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#CPC472 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#CPC472