Our school (in Finland) had a TRS-80 model I, on which I learned my first assembly language programming skillz. My dad had a model III. I myself did some contracting work when 15yrs old on a model 16, which was actually an I/O / modem bank front-end for an order processing system on an IBM system 38, with mobile clients using the model 100, sending the orders in and getting their itineraries back using slightly modified XMODEM-protocol.

So the short answer. Yes, they were available outside of USA and not just as the Dragons (which were rebranded Tandy/TRS-80 color computers.)

Lack of MMU, perhaps?

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I beg to differ - I've written C on TRS-80 model 16 with XENIX - it had MC68k and Z80 for bootstrap, which was used as I/O co-processor once the 68k system was up, It also had dual 8" floppies, and an 8MB (!!) hard disk which was larger than a modern desktop PC chassis.

Also the parent got the time wrong - affordable i386-based systems didn't really co-exist with TRS-80 - and the price of a Trash - even a Z80-based model would've definitely been more than you'd be able to buy with your Xmas cash in Finland those days.

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The pieces are here- google to find software solutions that already automatize exposing this data in the linked data web (won't shamelessly plug the one I'm working for:)

FOAF http://www.foaf-project.org/
SIOC http://sioc-project.org/

If someone hosting your data space (if it's not yourself) proves to be a jerk, you just take your data and shove it elsewhere.

No walled gardens. No silos.

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Except that here in Amsterdam that one is called a Vaasje (little vase.) Tried to get one of those in Utrecht and it didn't work.

In my native Finland a moderate 8-pinter night, of course meant that you had 4L of beer and probably are in need of about 400mg of Ibuprophen in the morning with your coffee.

In Russia you order Vodka by grams.... and lemme have 200 grams of Russky Standart with my dinner, please :)

And yes, The Size is in centimeters but that's only for me and my SO to know.

On a more serious note one should not forget that in aviation there are constant problems stemming from former eastern-bloc countries and their aircraft avionics systems using metric and the pilots having to convert from miles/feet when flying abroad. In such potentially dangerous situations not being able to visualize the distances/altitudes intuitively when making decisions can lead to excessive fatalities.

I wonder how many fatalities it would cost for the aviation industry to suddenly migrate to SI units and whether it would be considered worth it?