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You can call Odra anything but a PC and the author is clearly referring to availability (or lack of) of personal computers.


Polish (personal) computing industry definitely had a great – and, sadly, largely wasted – potential, however Odra is the worst example to prove this point. A poster child of the Polish "engineering thought" in the 70s was K-202[1], whose creator's tragic story shows how the dreams of the "Polish Silicon Valley" were defeated by the communist reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-202




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