The first question: do you know how many machnies were sold in Germany and in other countries? We already know machines sold in the UK, Germany, Hungary (more than 20000), the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, France, Egypt (4000) and Soviet Union (3000).

As for the sold machines in every country I really have to admit, that I do not know exact figures in any case. My work for ENTERPRISE Germany started, when UK was already closed. In the beginning I was responsible for end user support and I did some training - as far as hard-/software is concerned - for the new sales people. New, because the original staff of Germany was also fired by Lachu Mathani in autumn 1986. These people had promised to be able to sell thousands of computers in Germany, but managed only about 2.500 in appr. one year. Because of their promises ENTERPRISE UK had produced a lot of German EC128k machines and Lachu had them in stock now (his company Broadlight Ltd. had taken over all of the remaining ENTERPRISE stock).
 
There is a lot of paperword missing, especially as far as sales figures is concerned and therefore all quantities before autumn 1986 are just estimations:
 
Germany:
Appr. 2500 128k machines and a very small number of ENTERPRISE 64k (both by ENTERPRISE Computers GmbH) and a very small number of Mephisto PHC (via Hegener & Glaser). In fact: I have only seen one Mephisto BASIC Cartridge and one Mephisto PHC, that came in for repair.
 
Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, France, Spain and probably other western european countries:
ENTERPRISE UK had direct dealer contracts with one importer for each country, but these people had only small companies. In fact they were more ordinary dealers but real importers/distributors and therefore there is probably only a small number of machines in each of those countries - a few hundred maybe in each country. The import and contact stopped in almost all cases after ENTERRPRISE UK went into receivership.
 
In Germany we had only contact to the people in Denmark and the Netherlands. I talked to the guy from the Netherlands several times by phone and met him once, when he came to Munich to buy 12 machines from us. He showed us some hardware prototypes from his country: An internal 512kByte Memory Expansion with dynamic RAM and a small EXDOS controller, that was stacked on top of the computer (shown on ENTERFACE 198704-05).
 
As far as Denmark is concerned, I had contact to Anders Roar Nielsen. He and his brother were the heads of the local user group and made a lot of things for the ENTERPRISE. Apart from nice programs and system extension (like the cards extension) they'd made a modem card and software for the ENTERPRISE. With this package the computer could be used as a BBS (there was neither internet nor email at this time ).
 
Egypt:
The Egypt importer was Computer Technical Co. in Cairo. The founder and M.D. was Mr. Nabil Lashine. He had already bought about 500 ENTERPRISE 64k machines from England. He imported them to Egypt and sold them as electronic typewriters to other companies. He was not interested in games or other ancillaries, because he couldn't sell them (nobody in Egypt could afford a home computer for private purposes at that time). He made his own software for the computer and did the green keyboard print by himself. He bought additional 64k machines from us, but there was only appr. one shipment per year and not more than 150 machines (25 boxes á 6 computers). He also got appr. 500 empty cartridges from us. He always payed with monthly cheques. Sometimes it took long to get the money, but he was very reliable. His last order was in 1993, last contact to him in 1994. At this time his company was in big trouble and his bank had the hands on his remaining stock of EC machines. I've never heard of him afterwards, but I still have a complete set of printed keys, that he gave me while he was visiting us in Munich. All in all I think that 4000 units is too much - I personally know only about 1500 units, incl. the machines from England (but maybe Latchu has sold something to him directly).
 
About Hungary and the countries of the former Soviet Union:
These are both very special stories. I do not know all the details and I would like to ask a good friend of mine, who made these contracts, before I'm going to tell you anything wrong. I will also ask him about the total number of stock computers in England, because I cannot remember this figure at the moment.
 
England:
I have no idea about the total number of sold machines there but I assume, that they have not sold more than 25.000 units. The people of GRI Ltd told me, that they have produced something around 45.000 machines (64 and 128k engl./german). I do not know the production figures of the former producer (between 10/84-06/85), but the overall output was very low in 84 and they produced a lot of scrap too, which forced ENTERPRISE to look for a different manufacturer finally. The people of GRI told me a lot more (Communication problems, problems with supply of parts and materials, big problems with the test gear and all in all a much to expensive production due to the design of the machine and a lot of manual work, like memory expansion, ...), but  this is also a separate story, that has to be told later.

In 1996/7 there was a remaining stock of appr. 2000 ENTERPRISE computers (64k, 128k UK and 128K German), which we sold to a company in the czech republic. Together with these computers went almost all ancillaries (cables, cassette programs, disk drives, tools, test gear, ...) and that was the official end of ENTERPRISE Computers GmbH as you know them.

One of my fixations is to try to get information about the "future" Enterprise, features can't get into the Ep64/Ep128 (because of lack of enough time, money, whatever) and also "only ideas". This can be important, as nowdays' technology makes it possible to re-create EP (or even an EP v2.0) by hobby, but for advanced features over the original Ep design, it would be great to know the ideas of the original creators and people behind the Ep, to have something which at least seems to be the natural evolution of the Ep product line. Or something like this Of course this includes documentations, ideas, stories, hardware and software as well, so basically everything. Since Werner also wrote that he knew Kopacsy, maybe he also knows something about the "Super EP"?

Please be patient! Will coming many interesting and amazing things

OK, I thought one of the purposes of this forum thread is to collect questions from forum members as well, that's why I've written my own.

About the Enterprise hard disk we read what Mr. Kopácsy told in an interview in 1991. But never knew any more
Until few years ago when we found this on Adrian Graham's page. This is the first evidence! Later Adrian sent me the ROM image of the hard disk exansion.

Now I asked Werner about it:

This design is from 1989 and used two small PCB's. One for my Minibus-Expansion-system (which is described in ENTER-NEWS 1/88) and a smaller one for the hdd-controller-card. There was a flat ribbon cable between the two PCB's. Unfortunately I have only two prototypes (wire-wrapped) of this expansion system anymore, but my exdos-controller from 1986 fits to it. The Minibus-System was expanded later and got the name Motherboard-Extension-Bus: There was a driver board, which fitted to an EXDOS-Controller case and a 50pin ribbon-cable to a 19" box with power-supply and backplane. The harddisk and the controller were in this 19" box. Unfortunately only the computer-side of the project survived. Both systems were no commercial "success", because the overall number of users, who were interested in this system was too low. So there were only three or four handmade samples.
 
What is on the website is the prototype design of the harddisk- and memory-expansion-pcb for the teacher machines of 70 school networks for the Dhezgazkhan region in Kasakhstan. We needed one PCB, that contained the memory expansion with 256 kByte of static ram, the socket for the existing EXDOS-controllers and the socket for the SEAGATE Controller (ST11-R). The design, testing and production of the 70 units was done in Hungary. Vilmos Kopacsy has organised it.

Werner sent me the Technical manual of the hard disk system. It includes schematics so it is possible to recreate it

Thank you very much Werner these great info, we are waiting next part

It means the source was written and compiled on PC and the compiled code was sent via PC Parallel port to the simulator?

Yes.

Amazing, what a great idea, and solution.