EACA Industries Ltd
IndustryComputer hardware
Founded1972
Defunct1983
FateWound Up
Headquarters13 Chong Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Key people
Eric Chung Kwan-yee
ProductsVideo 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Dick Smith's CAT". AppleLogic. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Latamore, Bert (May 1981). "Tandy Sues Personal Micro, Alleges Patent Infringement". 80 Microcomputing. 1001001, Inc. (17): 66 – via the Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Latamore, Bert (July 1981). "Personal Micro to Fight Shack Suit, PM Prexy Terms It Scare Tactic". 80 Microcomputing. 1001001, Inc. (19): 72–74 – via the Internet Archive.
  4. ↑ Reed, Matthew (August 12, 2012). "Tandy Corp. v. Personal Micro Computers, Inc.". TRS-80.org. Archived from the original on August 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ "System 80 - EACA". Archived from the original on 3 November 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2017.


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