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/* History : a French phenomenon */
=History : a French phenomenon=
Despite this they were quite common because in the early 80's, the french government started a program "'''Plan informatique pour tous'''" (computering for all plan) in late 1984/early 1985 which consisted of equipping schools with computers networks.1 primary school on five had to get one, while all secondary schools (and laters) had to get computers networks
An earlier plan to equip schools called "'''10.000 computer plan'''" was also started in 1979 and bought some TO7 as early as 1982. It was decided to favour French industry and Thomson had to hastly hastily produce a full range of adequat adequate computers, '''based on the MOS 6809E CPU clocked at 1mhz.'''design of their 1982's computer the TO7.
This gave a first generation which, while still being "real" computers, were not especially designed to perform well on domestic market, nor be a good gaming platform.
As a result, a lot of Thomson computers were almost only sold to schools, apart from the few unfortunates who got one instead of an Amstrad CPC.
While french French National Education had to choose those french computer French computers (hastily developped developed in a rush) the general public rarely got those as they were not as well rounded as an Amstrad CPC per exemple.
A notable flaw was the '''lack of a proper Soundchip''', as only a poor '''beeper''' was put on those. Also most earlier models had very poor keyboards (just see pictures).
