PalmOS no more? :(

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:37:22 -0700
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

> At 2:32 PM +0100 9/30/05, Liam Proven wrote:
> >Until the rise of the PC, European microcomputers and American ones
> >evolved in quite different directions - mainly because American ones
> >were too damned expensive for us in the Old World so we used cheaper,
> >more efficient machines. I bought train tickets in Amsterdam in 1990
> >from a woman using an Atari ST workstation; they were the kit of the
> >whole Centraal station, as far as I could see. I knew labs and
> >businesses as well as schools in Britain entirely based on Acorn
> >32-bit RISC micros running RISC OS - even the Acorn licensed Unix,
> >RISC-IX, was too expensive. I believe Amigas as well as STs were very
> >widespread in Germany. Serious (& rich, back then) British DTP types
> >used Macs and still do.
> 
> The interesting thing here is, both the Amiga and the Atari were US 
> computers.  Yet, if anything, they were more popular in Europe, 
> especially in the UK and Germany (today most anything for either 
> platform tends to come out of one of these two countries).
> 
> As for the Acorn, did it ever get exported anywhere?  I know they 
> never really made it here to the US.  Another good example would be 
> the Sinclair, except for the little Timex-Sinclair system that was 
> out at about the same time as the VIC-20, or a little before, I don't 
> think any Sinclair models made it to the US (I have one, but it came 
> from a list member a few years ago).
> 
I had a Sinclair 2068 machine, and it was one I bought at retail in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, when they were current hardware.