New member from Greece

Hi John, thanks for the welcome!
I am mostly into gaming and fiddling with HW repairs, unfortunately no coding at all...
The computing scene during the eighties here mostly praised the "holy trinity" of Spectrum-Amstrad-Commodore, as in the most of Europe... but you could find almost any other major/minor computer brands in the shops (and most of them officially represented), from Atari, Acorn, Apple, Texas Instruments, Dragon, Tandy and Oric, to Jupiter Ace, Newbrain, SVI, Memotech, even Laser, Sord and BIT-90... The users of "unusual" machines were very few, though!

As for the MSX, I remember that there was an exclusive representative of Philips (ΦΙΛΙΠΣ Ελληνική - Ε.Λ.Ε.Α), i.e. Greek PHILIPS - E.L.E.A, which previously FULLY supported the Videopac (even with TV ads) and later the Philips MSX range, with software, peripherals, books (including Greek-translated manuals) and everything. I rarely saw a Japanese MSX machine for sale in a Greek shop (or even an ad) back then, Sony/Panasonic/JVC etc. were well known brands here, but not for computers. We mostly had Philips and SVI MSX and I think only Sanyo was officially represented. Most Japanese machines that made it to Greece must have been from professional sailors, travelling to the Far East and bringing them to their homes... There were also some Korean MSX models advertised in the mid/late eighties, like Goldstar or Daewoo...
However, the MSX commercial success here back in the days was not significant, due to the serious UK/US rivals...
...and then came the Amiga!!!

Welcome kokkiklhs!, nice to also see you here!

Welcome kokkiklhs!
I hope You'll find Your pleasant place among MSX users.
If You are confortable with HW repairs, that's super useful, I struggle with +/-12V circuitries and unresponsive keyboards.
Ciao!

Hello I am from Greece too.i Remember the elea in exarhia in valtetsiou street I think. There was also another one shop that sold games, it was in stournari street called "aspeco", I remember I got most of my msx
games from there in the 80ies.Those were good times back then