Our gear was all purchased from local distributors such as Lai and was already in the country.
We had our own finance arrangements and most machines were leased as business equipment.
It was pretty easy (in those heady days) to pay out loans on - say - 20 machines, in a year, so it was pretty straightforward to get more finance.
We were probably buying around 300 new machines a year which was pretty exciting!!!
Then Space Invaders arrived - ........................