That's interesting and good to know. I imagined Western Europe was much more advanced computer-wise, since PCs were out from 1982 onwards and by the time I started high school, 486s were available and Pentium would appear soon.
I started high school in Romania in 1992 and in the beginning we only had two PCs, one AT with VGA color monitor and one XT with monochrome Hercules, and the rest were Romanian made CP/M machines with 8 inch floppies and horrible keyboards that would either fail to get the input or get stuck. PC keyboard was like walking on the Moon compared to early keyboards.
There were no PCs when I was in high school. We had classes in BASIC running on a time shared DEC PDP11. I got in trouble for running $TALK, which was like a very primitive chat app. Good times...
Didn't get to see any kind of PC until 82 or so, my boss had a "Trash 80" which he used to access APL workspaces from home.
I started high school in Romania in 1992 and in the beginning we only had two PCs, one AT with VGA color monitor and one XT with monochrome Hercules, and the rest were Romanian made CP/M machines with 8 inch floppies and horrible keyboards that would either fail to get the input or get stuck. PC keyboard was like walking on the Moon compared to early keyboards.
We had Junior: https://retroit.ro/product/junior/
And CUB-Z: https://retroit.ro/product/cub-z/
After about a year the CP/M machines were decommissioned and 386 PCs brought in as replacements.