UsagiPretzels
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Greeting from Canada (my birth & homeplace), I just noticed that most people in my family and relatives actually don't know about vintage computing, it's not just Canada has a poor quality of vintage computers because almost all of them also went to the US market (like Commodore and Dynalogic). I know it's a frustrating job for me though, though I was still working on my list of full vintage computers that are in the Canadian retro computing market, so I suggest that everyone of you should suggest other computers you may know of from around the world to be the exact separation of the United States of America, like the UK and France and plus, they're related to Canada. To make sure of it, make a list of foreign home computers and the companies itself to be suitable for the Canadian computer market throughout the early 70's to the end of the mid-90's.
To be honest with you (and make sure you read the whole thing as well), here are one of the computers that aren't going to be in Canada, besides my inspiration of American and European vintage computers, Canada is NTSC (just like the United States) and it is commonly known for its English and French languages in North America, here are one of the computer brands that should not be in Canada, but the equivalent to the European computers is in North America (especially the US itself):
Sharp MZ-series (suggest the NEC computers instead of the Sharp brands like the equivalent to the condiments)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (known to be as the Timex Sinclair 2068 in North America)
Acorn Electron
Tomy Tutor (Not every country gets a Japanese "secondary TV game boom" computer which is localized in the market, there's also the UK with the M5, Australia, New Zealand, France and several European countries with the SC-3000, and Germany and Canada here gets the MAX Machine computer while the US also has the MAX Machine along with the Tomy Tutor (which is also called the Ultimax in North America and the VC-10 in Germany), but to Canada rather get an M5 or an SC-3000)
Lambda 8300 (???)
MicroBee (Maybe, I'm not so quite sure about the MicroBee in Canada, and thus Canada is also related to Australia because of the same British commonwealth I have here!)
Memotech MTX
Tatung Einstein (Unknown what year was Tatung found in Canada, plus they only make noodle cookers and hot water steamers)
Grundy NewBrain (no clue what graphics look like in the NewBrain)
Camputers Lynx 48k
Enterprise 64/128
Robotron series (k.g.; KC 87)
Acorn Atom
MGT SAM Coupe
Sinclair QL (Was before Sinclair Research's US branch was acquanted by Timex who also made the watches in North America, it is also fair that Sinclair Research continued to release the QL computer in the US as well as other electronic brands while not working with Timex by the brand name Timex Sinclair, but get confusing in Canada as well)
Educatel Microlab (Seen it before.)
National/Panasonic JR-100 (The keyboard is good, but the colours on the screen are in black and white, just like the confusing Lambda 8300 computer)
Apollo 7 Squale
Compukit UK101 (seems to the clone of the Ohio Scientific Superboard II, but with the country's initials on it!)
Apricot F1 and following
Casio PV-2000 Rakugaki
Bandai RX-78 Gundam computer (Gundam hasn't been released in Canada yet until the mid-90's or the 2000's maybe?)
NEC PC-98 series (Known to be as the NEC APC in the Western)
MSX (Not all of MSX standards like other countries did when the brand name doesn't get national successes, just the original MSX like the UK did when other English-speaking countries like Australia and the US did when they get a short amount of MSX computers, brands like the Hit-Bit and the SVI-728)
Sony SMC-70 series
Toshiba Pasopia brands (as known to be the Toshiba T100 in North America)
Thomson TO7 (may lose Thomson's power ratio when they ship plain TO7s in the market)
Nascom series (Too difficult for the home computer market I thought)
It is also possible to add old computers from the Asian Pacific as well as for most of Europe which is similar to the American line of vintage computing before the Windows and Mac showed up like the EACA EG2000 Colour Genie and the COMX-35 since it is also possible to compete with the Commodore computers in the Canadian home computer market if one of those computers are remained to have a basic home computer like the BBC Microcomputer or the SV-318. It is also three-times possible that Canada is part of North America and also part of the British Commonwealth, so most of the computers from the United States which remain common and very well to known are going to be in Canada as well as for some of the European computers from the UK and France with a similar line to the Americans to make sure Canada will compete in the worldwide computer sale games just like they did with the US and several European countries, it is also fair to add American vintage computers like the Exidy Sorcerer and the Compaq Portable series as well.
To be honest with you (and make sure you read the whole thing as well), here are one of the computers that aren't going to be in Canada, besides my inspiration of American and European vintage computers, Canada is NTSC (just like the United States) and it is commonly known for its English and French languages in North America, here are one of the computer brands that should not be in Canada, but the equivalent to the European computers is in North America (especially the US itself):
Sharp MZ-series (suggest the NEC computers instead of the Sharp brands like the equivalent to the condiments)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (known to be as the Timex Sinclair 2068 in North America)
Acorn Electron
Tomy Tutor (Not every country gets a Japanese "secondary TV game boom" computer which is localized in the market, there's also the UK with the M5, Australia, New Zealand, France and several European countries with the SC-3000, and Germany and Canada here gets the MAX Machine computer while the US also has the MAX Machine along with the Tomy Tutor (which is also called the Ultimax in North America and the VC-10 in Germany), but to Canada rather get an M5 or an SC-3000)
Lambda 8300 (???)
MicroBee (Maybe, I'm not so quite sure about the MicroBee in Canada, and thus Canada is also related to Australia because of the same British commonwealth I have here!)
Memotech MTX
Tatung Einstein (Unknown what year was Tatung found in Canada, plus they only make noodle cookers and hot water steamers)
Grundy NewBrain (no clue what graphics look like in the NewBrain)
Camputers Lynx 48k
Enterprise 64/128
Robotron series (k.g.; KC 87)
Acorn Atom
MGT SAM Coupe
Sinclair QL (Was before Sinclair Research's US branch was acquanted by Timex who also made the watches in North America, it is also fair that Sinclair Research continued to release the QL computer in the US as well as other electronic brands while not working with Timex by the brand name Timex Sinclair, but get confusing in Canada as well)
Educatel Microlab (Seen it before.)
National/Panasonic JR-100 (The keyboard is good, but the colours on the screen are in black and white, just like the confusing Lambda 8300 computer)
Apollo 7 Squale
Compukit UK101 (seems to the clone of the Ohio Scientific Superboard II, but with the country's initials on it!)
Apricot F1 and following
Casio PV-2000 Rakugaki
Bandai RX-78 Gundam computer (Gundam hasn't been released in Canada yet until the mid-90's or the 2000's maybe?)
NEC PC-98 series (Known to be as the NEC APC in the Western)
MSX (Not all of MSX standards like other countries did when the brand name doesn't get national successes, just the original MSX like the UK did when other English-speaking countries like Australia and the US did when they get a short amount of MSX computers, brands like the Hit-Bit and the SVI-728)
Sony SMC-70 series
Toshiba Pasopia brands (as known to be the Toshiba T100 in North America)
Thomson TO7 (may lose Thomson's power ratio when they ship plain TO7s in the market)
Nascom series (Too difficult for the home computer market I thought)
It is also possible to add old computers from the Asian Pacific as well as for most of Europe which is similar to the American line of vintage computing before the Windows and Mac showed up like the EACA EG2000 Colour Genie and the COMX-35 since it is also possible to compete with the Commodore computers in the Canadian home computer market if one of those computers are remained to have a basic home computer like the BBC Microcomputer or the SV-318. It is also three-times possible that Canada is part of North America and also part of the British Commonwealth, so most of the computers from the United States which remain common and very well to known are going to be in Canada as well as for some of the European computers from the UK and France with a similar line to the Americans to make sure Canada will compete in the worldwide computer sale games just like they did with the US and several European countries, it is also fair to add American vintage computers like the Exidy Sorcerer and the Compaq Portable series as well.
