Ethan Dicks wrote:
Perhaps someone from Europe or Asia should chime in on
how the MSX
wave hit their corner of the planet. In the States, it was barely a
whisper.
They never seemed that common in the UK either - possibly because the UK had
such a thriving computer industry of its own (without even taking into account
systems filtering over from the US, France, Germany etc.).
As you say, there seems to have been something of a media storm about MSX
systems at the time - but the reality as I saw it was that they just didn't sell.
The majority of the UK machines available either outstripped the MSX
technically, or had massive established user bases and backing from the big
software companies of the time. Either of those was enough to put people off
investing in MSX technology, I believe.
cheers
Jules