Reading about Evesham Technology's struggle to remain profitable after the government threw it (and everyone else) the juicy bone of the Home Computer Initiative (pay for a computer at home through your gross, not net salary) and then abruptly withdrew it, I suddenly thought: when are the lights going to go out on PC making in the UK?
A couple of decades ago you could barely walk down the street without coming across another British computer maker. Amstrad, Sinclair, Research Machines, Acorn (OK, sorta the same, those two), Apricot (anyone remember Apricot?) and a trumptillion others that blossomed in the 80s.
Now who? Off the top of my head, Research Machines, Amstrad's subsidiary Viglen, Evesham.. and who else? I'm only counting companies that make them in volume.
Rather as the Rover scandal rang down the curtain on British car making, how long will it be before the last British PC maker turns off the lights?
