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| During the spring of 1978 the
Swedish company Luxor made an agreement with Scandia Metric AB and Dataindustrier AB
regarding the ABC 80. Karl-Johan Börjesson of Scandia Metric AB had initiated the product
and Dataindustrier AB made the construction. When ABC 80 was launched in the end of 1978 it turned out to be a great success. During the first two years more than 10.000 computers were sold by Luxor and Scandia Metric. ABC 80 became the computer for ordinary people. It was sold as a computer for education, home and hobby. And it was much used for education. The Swedish people went to courses to learn programming in BASIC on an ABC 80. In 1980 Luxor continued with their next project - the ABC 800. The success was even greater than with the ABC 80 and in Motala in Sweden where Luxor was located one started to believe that this product would conquer the world. They soon made an agreement with Facit, who started to sell ABC 800 with their own name, Facit DTC. From the beginning the intention was that Facit would sell the product outside Sweden and Luxor within Sweden, but soon Facit started to compete with Luxor in Sweden with essentially the same computer. During the coming years new models were launched - most of them successful and in 1983 ABC 800 was by far the most sold computer for commercial use in Sweden. However in the beginning of 1983 the IBM PC was launched in Sweden and already the following year the IBM was the most sold computer in Sweden. |
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