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by stephc_int13 1360 days ago
It was a hacking scene with a few talented guys with strong enough personalities to organize meetups and write fanzines articles.

Also, the model was popular in preparatory schools because of the expansion slots, it was possible to extend the memory by a huge margin.

This memory was useful to store, well everything you could, and at the time those calcs were not forbidden during exams.

Some people (including me) even wrote text editors and viewers with support to display a mix of text and picture for schematics, physics or chemical diagrams...

The US scene was also extremely helpful, with people such as JK Horn or Eric Rechlin.