[1][2][3][4] The production was local, due to a lack of foreign currency for purchasing systems from the West.

[citation needed] They were deployed en masse in schools throughout Slovakia,[5] while the IQ 151 performed a similar role in the Czech part of the country.

The first Czechoslovak video games were created on the PMD 85 (other platforms were ZX Spectrum and Atari).

[20] Didaktik Alfa and Beta were mostly deployed in schools to replace older PMD 85 computers.

The same year ZBA, a company from Brno better known for making firearms and motor vehicles, introduced the Consul 2717, another PMD 85-2 clone, sold to schools.