EACA

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{{Infobox company

| name = EACA Industries Ltd

| logo = EACA Logo.png

| fate = Wound Up

| founded = 1972

| defunct = 1983

| location = 13 Chong Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

| industry = Computer hardware

| 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.applelogic.org/TheCAT.html|title=Dick Smith's CAT|access-date=3 November 2017|website=AppleLogic}} 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.{{cite journal | last=Latamore | first=Bert | date=May 1981 | url=https://archive.org/details/80_Microcomputing_Issue_17_1981-05_1001001_US/page/n65/ | title=Tandy Sues Personal Micro, Alleges Patent Infringement | work=80 Microcomputing | publisher=1001001, Inc. | issue=17 | page=66 | via=the Internet Archive}} 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.{{cite journal | last=Latamore | first=Bert | date=July 1981 | url=https://archive.org/details/80_Microcomputing_Issue_19_1981-07_1001001_US/page/n71/ | title=Personal Micro to Fight Shack Suit, PM Prexy Terms It Scare Tactic | work=80 Microcomputing | publisher=1001001, Inc. | issue=19 | page=72–74 | via=the Internet Archive}} The two companies supposedly settled out of court.{{cite web | last=Reed | first=Matthew | date=August 12, 2012 | url=http://www.trs-80.org/tandy-vs-pmc/ | title=Tandy Corp. v. Personal Micro Computers, Inc. | work=TRS-80.org | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812074330/http://www.trs-80.org/tandy-vs-pmc/ | archivedate=August 12, 2012}}

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.{{cite web |title=System 80 - EACA |url=https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/eaca.htm |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website=}}

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|date=December 2023}}

References

External links

[http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/ Site covering the System 80 and EACA in general]
[http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=419 Video Genie I, II], and [http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=130 III], and the [http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=128 Colour Genie] at old-computers.com
[https://www.1000bit.it/database2.asp?id=51 1000BiT, in English and Italian]

Category:Defunct computer hardware companies

Category:Home computer hardware companies