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| Industry | Computer hardware |
|---|---|
| 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.
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]
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.[2]
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. Eric Chung was rumoured to have fled Hong Kong for Taiwan, leaving a seaside villa and massive debts in his wake.
References
- ^ "Dick Smith's CAT". AppleLogic. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ "System 80 - EACA". Archived from the original on 3 November 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
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