British Computers

Several multinationals had or have a presence in Ireland including: Amdahl Apple Dell Digital EMC Fujitsu Siemens Gateway HP IBM Memorex Many of these built computers or peripherals here for the European market. However, it is pretty much the same as equipment thats found everywhere else in the world. I am not aware of anything that could be regarded as being uniquely Irish in the same way that for example Acorn kit could be regarded as being British. Intel also have a large manufacturing presence here as have/had Analog Devices and Motorola (although I think Motorolas operation here was more involved in mobile phones) so unfortunately we're responsible for the production of lots of x86 type microprocessors. I hope none of them were designed here, especially the ones that couldn't divide accurately :-) I was disappointed to find that my Mac SE from Cork doesn't have any signatures inside the case so I guess they didn't copy the case moulds used in the US. Regards, Peter.