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by flohofwoe 771 days ago
Also in East Germany, initiated by Prof. Horst Voelz (who was kind of a computer celebrity back then, basically the East German Konrad Zuse or Alan Turing).

Interestingly there was a cooperation with computer enthusiasts from the Netherlands which led to the adaption of the Dutch BASICODE standard in East Germany.

Also see (apologies for German link, but I guess machine translation will work well):

https://web.archive.org/web/20181107231024/http://r-h-voelz....