[tomca32]

Wow! I can’t believe I never heard of this.

Despite being born in Yugoslavia and alive at that time, I’ve never encountered or heard of Galaksija in my life. Sinclair stuff was pretty common: Spectrum and the older zx80, Commodore, even Amiga in the late 80s/early 90s. The only domestic machine I ever encountered was Orao.

[hahamaster]

Galaksija was a very impressive undertaking considering the fact that it was made by a single person. However, it was underpowered compared to other computers accessible to citizens of Yugoslavia at the time. I was a little kid back then but even I looked at Galaksija as mediocre in terms of power and features. My parents were middle class but we could afford a more powerful computer with color graphics and more memory.

[ivanche]

You never had a chance to experience another Yugoslavian computer Pecom 32 then :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecom_32

[tomca32]

Indeed I haven't, thanks for sharing. Wow a computer developed in Nis. Never thought I'd read about that.

[otto2]

It was really "popular" in 1984 and 1985, and for hobbyists only. If you started being interested in computers after 1985 there was a big chance to never hear of it.

[0xbs0d]

We had one at our school but I never got the chance to use it. It was for older kids only and I got assigned to the ZX Spectrum with the others :) Not that I'm complaining.

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cf https://emulator.galaksija.org/MagScans/index.html