From: A Vision Splendid The History of Australian Computing

“RUDI HOESS BRINGS THE APPLE II TO AUSTRALIA The burgeoning microcomputer market in the US caught the attention of Australian entrepreneur Rudi Hoess. In 1976 he started Electronic Concepts, a company that imported and sold calculators and microcomputer boards.431 He soon raised his sights higher. Hoess was a German electrical engineer who had come to Australia in 1961 with Italian computer company Olivetti. He subsequently worked in a number of computer companies in Australia and around Asia, ”