This market collapsed at the end of the 1980s with the appearance of drastic budgetary restrictions in the French public sector and competition from more aggressive technological rivals like IBM, Apple and Olivetti.

Despite a significant debt of 40 million francs, the company went public in 1985, claiming to hold 15% of the French microcomputer market.

[4] The first Goupil G1[5][6] and G2[7][8] computers offered a promising architecture, with the integration of the Motorola 6808 processor coupled with the FLEX operating system.

The G3[9][10] extended compatibility in order to conquer foreign markets, by offering two processors at a time (selected at start-up by a switch) among three choices: the very common Motorola 6809, Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088.

This allowed the Flex 9 and UniFLEX operating systems that came with the machine to run under MS-DOS, CP/M and UCSD Pascal.