What was specific to the European and the French markets from the technical point of view?
Two countries influenced seriously the European markets and Bull was strong in those two: Sweden and France. Sweden was the first to prescribe noise standards for operators staying in the computer room and the first to edict rules on file privacy. France was edicting laws for the protection of the French language. In addition, the major difference between USA was the power supply problems where USA run on 60Hz while Europe adopted 50Hz. there was also a voltage difference (110v vs. 220v). Such differences were important in the world of electromechanical equipments and was resolved by the Japanese who had the same differences between Osaka and Tokyo.
