I got a reply from John Blair about this video:
Dave
... this was the fastest desktop PC of the time, that you could also take on the road.
Actually it wasn't strictly a PC at the time. It was a clone, or IBM compatible even though it was not IBM compatible or a clone. It is unlikley to have been called a "PC". More likely a microcomputer or something else. I suspect this Aussie made laptop was completely legit, and royalities would have been paid to Microsoft and the BIOS vendor unless they wrote the BIOS themselves.
Unlike most of the stuff sold out of the infamous Golden Centre in Hong Kong. The pirated anything and everything. In 1984, I actually saw a clone with the 8 bar logo "IBN" and "Personal Computer". The clone maker's name was "Improved Business Nohow". Well, they didn't "nohow" to spell but they certainly "newhow" to pirate intellectual property. Oddly enough its address is
Fuk Wa St., Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. The street might have been was named after the sounds heard when another raid was about to occur on the Golden Centre.
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In 1984, Golden Centre was the world's biggest pirate centre of PC AND mainframe software according to The Bulletin magazine. Anyone who visited the Golden Centre in the 80's would certainly remember the roaring trade in pirated software and cheap hardware. I was there in 1984, and I never saw any machine sold that even resembled this innovative Aussie made "laptop PC". I bought a "rotten Apple" there. If I were smart, I would have bought shares in rotten Apple instead
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