I sometimes wonder what the world would look like now if the UK govt had said right, computing is strategic, we need to maintain that capability, and had gone all-out to equip the public sector with the BBC Master or the Archimedes. Business would have followed suit. Or if the German govt had done the same with the Amiga.

Of course what would actually happen is they'd have bought Amstrad word processors and e-mailers from that snake-oil salesman Alan Sugar. Oh well.