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Comment by ilyt

2 years ago

...Why would they tax extra ones with smaller memory ? Was there actual reason specified somewhere ?

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Rarok  2 years ago

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

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