Comment by nickdothutton
2 years ago
Spain used to have an extra import tax on home computers with <=64KB RAM. One manufacturer got around it by including an extra 8KB chip on a daughterboard (not electrically connected at all!) to increase the RAM to 72KB and avoid the tax.
...Why would they tax extra ones with smaller memory ? Was there actual reason specified somewhere ?
It's said that the tax was for every computing machine but big companies pressured the government to remove it and what the government did was only tax microcomputers and not systems like mainframes and such.
The computer with the 72KB was the Amstrad CPC472
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#CPC472