In Brazil, there’s an assigned time in national TV for representative candidates to show up their platforms. It’s mandatory and it shows up in all TV broadcasters at the same time. This is a video made with the most bizarre candidates to the past 2006 general balloting. Some of them got actually elected. For me, the best, most bizarre of the lot is Lara, 31031. By the way, this numbers assigned to the candidates are the numbers people use to vote for them on the electronic ballots.
Brazil had from the 70’s to the 90’s a law that forbade microcomputer and related technology imports. The intention of the law: to protect Brazilian industry from competition to the level national industry could survive by itself. What happened? Despite minor Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo industries born on their local Universities, most of the industry limited itself to bootleg designs from the major computer and peripheral makers. On the pics bellow, some of them.
TK95 arrived. And it’s not just for fun.
CP 200 was another famous Brazilian bootleg design for British Sinclair’s ZX-81. The company, Prologica, bootleged several other designs from other major foreigner companies.
CP 400 was the most expensive of the small 8 bits computers by the time (from 1982 to circa 1986). It was a bootleg design of RadioShack TRS-80 Color, also from Prologica.
