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I've had some chats with Chinese people as my girlfriend is into garments & importation etc. Well, as far as I've understood, China ain't ready for computers yet. But the guys I met were perfectly aware of our side of the world's technology. I must say they were all university graduates, pro-capitalists after a few French wine glasses (no need to say they don't criticize their goverment in normal circumstances), and had big incomes (on China's basis). They knew about PCs, Amiga!, and said at that time they would need some cheap computers to make China enter the computer age, as nothing exists yet! That's why I guess selling C64s in China may be a good way to make money as far as political power backs the commercial forces… (As an example, China has been renting an hotel in Paris for years, and Chinese business travellers are only allowed to stay in this hotel.) Fred. Frederic Botton from Paris, France fbotton@cix.compulink.co.uk