When you outgrow your personal computer, that's the time you'll wish you-d bought a DAI

Rather than being the name of a computer made by a staunchly Welsh computer company, the curiously-shaped DAI comes from Belgian company Data Applications International. 

It had 48K RAM and a generous 24K ROM, which included its BASIC, as well as a machine-code monitor and a disk operating system. 

Its retail price of £595 + VAT, despite the good spec, was very high at about [[684|1982]] in [[now]] terms, which priced it well above the £150 ([[150|1982]]) that the VIC-20 was selling at towards the end of 1982, and even more than the £400 ([[400|1982]]) of Acorn's BBC Micro.