EACA

EACA International Ltd was a Hong Kong manufacturer active from 1975 to 1983, producing Pong-style television video games, and later producing thousands of personal computers.

For other groups referred to by this acronym, see Evangelical Anglican Church of America, Evangelical Anglican Church In America, and East African Court of Appeal.
EACA Industries Ltd
IndustryComputer hardware
Founded1972
Defunct1983
FateWound Up
Headquarters13 Chong Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Key people
Eric Chung Kwan-yee
ProductsVideo Genie, Genie I, II, III, Colour Genie

The company's products included the Video Genies I, II and III (which were Tandy TRS-80 Model I-compatible) and the Colour Genie. Along with Radio Shack clones, they also produced Apple II computer compatible machines.[1] In the United States, the clones were marketed under EACA's Personal Microcomputers Inc. (PMC) subsidiary as the PMC-80. Tandy Corporation sued PMC (and EACA by extension) in early 1981, citing patent and copyright infringement of the TRS-80's microcode and ROM code, as well as trademark infringement with the "-80" branding.[2] PMC maintained their innocence, charging that Tandy had not informed the company of copyright infringement before launching the suit and that Tandy was trying to eliminate competition.[3] The two companies supposedly settled out of court.[4]

The EACA group of companies was established in December 1972 by Eric Chung Kwan-yee (alias Chung Bun), a businessman of humble beginnings from mainland China who stole into the then British colony from Guangzhou as a young man.[5]

Just as distributors were promoting a new 16-bit machine in late 1983, the heavily indebted group went into liquidation at the hands of receivers.

References
  1. "Dick Smith's CAT". AppleLogic. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. Latamore, Bert (May 1981). "Tandy Sues Personal Micro, Alleges Patent Infringement". 80 Microcomputing. 1001001, Inc. (17): 66 – via the Internet Archive.
  3. Latamore, Bert (July 1981). "Personal Micro to Fight Shack Suit, PM Prexy Terms It Scare Tactic". 80 Microcomputing. 1001001, Inc. (19): 72–74 – via the Internet Archive.
  4. Reed, Matthew (August 12, 2012). "Tandy Corp. v. Personal Micro Computers, Inc.". TRS-80.org. Archived from the original on August 12, 2012.
  5. "System 80 - EACA". Archived from the original on 3 November 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2017.


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