EACA International Ltd was a Hong Kong manufacturer active from 1975 to 1983, producing

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-style television

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s, and later producing thousands of personal computers. The company's products included the

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s I, II and III (which were Tandy TRS-80 Model I-compatible) and the

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. Along with Radio Shack clones, they also produced Apple II computer compatible machines. In the United States, the clones were marketed under EACA's Personal Microcomputers Inc. (PMC) subsidiary as the PMC-80.

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sued PMC (and EACA by extension) in early 1981, citing patent and copyright infringement of the TRS-80's microcode and

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code, as well as trademark infringement with the "-80" branding. PMC maintained their innocence, charging that Tandy had not informed the company of copyright infringement before launching the suit and that Tandy was trying to eliminate competition. The two companies supposedly settled out of court. The EACA group of companies was established in December 1972 by Eric Chung Kwan-yee (alias Chung Bun), a businessman of humble beginnings from mainland

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who stole into the then British colony from Guangzhou as a young man. Just as distributors were promoting a new

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machine in late 1983, the heavily indebted group went into liquidation at the hands of receivers.

References

External links

Site covering the System 80 and EACA in general

Video Genie I, II
an
III
and th
Colour Genie
at old-computers.com
1000BiT, in English and Italian
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