Company:EACA
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| Industry | Computer hardware |
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| Fate | Wound Up |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Defunct | 1983 |
| Headquarters | 13 Chong Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong |
Key people | Eric Chung Kwan-yee |
| Products | Video Genie, Genie I, II, III, Colour Genie |
EACA International Ltd was a Hong Kong manufacturer active from 1975 to 1983, producing Pong-style television video games, and later producing thousands of personal computers.
Products
The company's products included the Video Genies I, II and III (which were Tandy TRS-80 Model I-compatible) and the Colour Genie. Along with Radio Shack clones, they also produced Apple II computer compatible machines.[1] In the United States, the clones were marketed under EACA's Personal Microcomputers Inc. (PMC) subsidiary as the PMC-80. Tandy Corporation sued PMC (and EACA by extension) in early 1981, citing patent and copyright infringement of the TRS-80's microcode and ROM code, as well as trademark infringement with the "-80" branding.[2] 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.[3] The two companies supposedly settled out of court.[4]
History
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 China who stole into the then British colony from Guangzhou as a young man.[5]
Just as distributors were promoting a new 16-bit machine in late 1983, the heavily indebted group went into liquidation at the hands of receivers.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "Dick Smith's CAT". http://www.applelogic.org/TheCAT.html.
- ↑ Latamore, Bert (May 1981). "Tandy Sues Personal Micro, Alleges Patent Infringement". 80 Microcomputing (1001001, Inc.) (17): 66. https://archive.org/details/80_Microcomputing_Issue_17_1981-05_1001001_US/page/n65/.
- ↑ Latamore, Bert (July 1981). "Personal Micro to Fight Shack Suit, PM Prexy Terms It Scare Tactic". 80 Microcomputing (1001001, Inc.) (19): 72–74. https://archive.org/details/80_Microcomputing_Issue_19_1981-07_1001001_US/page/n71/.
- ↑ Reed, Matthew (August 12, 2012). "Tandy Corp. v. Personal Micro Computers, Inc.". TRS-80.org. Archived from the original on August 12, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120812074330/http://www.trs-80.org/tandy-vs-pmc/.
- ↑ "System 80 - EACA". http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/eaca.htm.
External links
- Site covering the System 80 and EACA in general
- Video Genie I, II, and III, and the Colour Genie at old-computers.com
- 1000BiT, in English and Italian
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