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The Commodore 64 (and I suspect the Spectrum 48K too) got off the COCOM list in 1985 -- but the legally available C64 in Hungary was beyond the means of individuals at the time. It was more used by corporations (well, what went for corporations at the time). OTOH my parents got the ZX Spectrum in Munich heavily discounted because by then it was several years old and did not count as particularly modern. The Amiga 1000 was already released even if not yet widely available.

A community center in an outer district of Budapest have organized a "micro club" every week, I can't find a definite date of when it started, this photo is titled "some time around 1986" http://gpsgames.hu/data/games/2796/2796_1.jpg Every Friday people would haul their various microcomputers to this place and swap programs and chat. Copyright ... we kind of knew it was not "legal" but noone cared.

Those were the days.