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A company, organisation or the like responsible for the manufacturing and/or sale of a computer to the public.
   
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x Thinking Machines Tmc-cm2.gif Connection Machine CM-2
Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis's doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a...
CM-5
CM-200
CM-2a
CM-5e
more
x RCA RCA's logo as seen today on many products   COSMAC ELF
RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Currently, the RCA trademark is owned by the French conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned...
COSMAC VIP
x Netronics     ELF II  
x Commodore International Commodore PR-100 3q   Commodore 64
Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a US electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which played a vital role in the development of the home/personal computer industry in the 1980s. The company is also...
Commodore 128
KIM-1
Amiga
Commodore VIC-20
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x MOS Technology MOS Technology   KIM-1
MOS Technology, Inc., also known as CSG (Commodore Semiconductor Group), was a semiconductor design and fabrication company based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is most famous for its 6502 microprocessor, and various designs...
x Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems   Altair 8800
Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) was an American electronics company founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico that began manufacturing electronic calculators in 1971 and personal computers in 1975. Ed Roberts and Forrest Mims founded...
x IMS Associates, Inc. IMSAI8080   IMSAI 8080
IMS Associates, Inc., or IMSAI, was a microcomputer company, responsible for one of the earliest successes in personal computing, the IMSAI 8080. The company was founded in 1973 by William Millard and was based in San Leandro, California. Their...
x Digital Equipment Corporation Digital dec logo.png   PDP-16
Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC (this acronym was frequently officially used by Digital itself, but the trademark was always...
PDP-15
PDP-14
LINC
PDP-12
more
x Lincoln Laboratory     TX-2
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, also known as Lincoln Lab, is a federally funded research and development center managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and primarily funded by the United States Department of Defense. Lincoln Lab is located at...
TX-0
Whirlwind
x Moore School of Electrical Engineering Moore School of Electrical Engineering   ENIAC
The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania came into existence as a result of an endowment from Alfred Fitler Moore on June 4, 1923. It was granted to Penn's School of Electrical Engineering, located in the Towne...
x IBM IBM logo IBM System z IBM PC
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information...
IBM System x IBM 650
IBM System p IBM AP-101S
IBM System i Deep Thought
Roadrunner
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x Amiga Corporation     Amiga
Amiga Corporation was a United States computer company formed in the early 1980s as Hi-Toro. It is most famous for having developed the Amiga computer, code named Lorraine. In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari staffers, had become...
x Tandy Corporation DSC00806   TRS-80 Model 1
Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which is best known for purchasing and giving its name to the Fort Worth, Texas-based RadioShack Corporation. Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store,...
TRS-80 Color Computer
TRS-80 Model 2
TRS-80 Model 3
x Canon Canon logo   Canon Cat
Canon Inc. (キヤノン株式会社, Kyanon Kabushiki Gaisha, TYO: 7751, NYSE: CAJ) is a multinational corporation that specialises in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, photocopiers, steppers and computer printers. Its...
MSX
MSX2
x Sony Sony logo   Mylo
Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue...
PlayStation 2
MSX
MSX2+
MSX2
more
x Nokia Nokia.jpg   Nokia N800
Nokia Corporation (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnɔkiɑ]) (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK, FWB: NOA3) is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki. Nokia is engaged...
Nokia 770
Nokia N810
Nokia N900
x OQO     OQO 02
OQO was a U.S. computer hardware company that was notable for manufacture of handheld computers. Its systems possess the functionality of a tablet PC in a form-factor slightly larger than a PDA. According to Guinness World Records, the "OQO" is the...
x NeXT     NeXTstation
Next, Inc. (later Next Computer, Inc. and Next Software, Inc. and stylized as NeXT) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher...
NeXTcube
NeXTcube 030
NeXTcube Turbo
NeXTcube 040
more
x Wang Laboratories Wang logo circa 1976 Wang OIS  
Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded in 1951 by Dr. An Wang and Dr. G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge (1954–1963), Tewksbury (1963–1976), and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts (1976–1997). At its peak in...
Wang VS
Wang 2200
x Acorn Computers AcornComputersLtdLogo   Acorn Archimedes
Acorn Computers was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK. These included the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro and the Acorn Archimedes....
BBC Micro
x Atari Part of Atari's original logo   Atari ST
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA). Atari Interactive has in...
Atari 65XE
x Timex Sinclair     Timex Sinclair 2068
Timex Sinclair was a joint venture between the British company Sinclair Research and Timex Corporation in an effort to gain an entry into the rapidly-growing early-1980s home computer market in the United States. The choice of partnership was...
Timex Sinclair 1000
Timex Sinclair 2048
x Xerox Xerox   Xerox Star
Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX; pronounced /ˈzɪərɒks/) is a fortune 500 global document management company (founded in 1906) which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital...
Xerox NoteTaker
x Sinclair Research Ltd Sinclair Micromatic radio advertisement   Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair Research Ltd is a consumer electronics company founded by Sir Clive Sinclair in Cambridge, England. Originally incorporated in 1973, it remained dormant until 1976, and did not adopt the name Sinclair Research until 1981. In 1980, Clive...
Sinclair ZX81
ZX Spectrum
Sinclair QL
ZX Spectrum 48K
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x Nintendo NintendoCards   Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small...
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Game & Watch
Wii
Nintendo GameCube
more
x Hewlett-Packard HP Logo ProLiant ProLiant
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. HP has its United States offices at the former old Compaq Campus in unincorporated Harris County,...
VAX HP Mini 1000
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC
x Compaq Compaq logo used since 2007 ProLiant  
Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard. The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto — former Texas Instruments senior managers. The name ...
x Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Logo   Sun386i
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek...
Sun-3
x Al Alamia     MSX  
x Casio Casio   MSX
Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (カシオ計算機株式会社, Kashio Keisanki Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6952) is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its calculators,...
x Daewoo Daewoo   MSX
Daewoo (Korean for "Great Universe") was a major South Korean chaebol (conglomerate). It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999. Prior to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998, Daweoo was...
MSX2
x Dragon Data Dragon Logo   MSX
Dragon Data was a Welsh producer of home computers during the early 1980s. These computers, the Dragon 32 and Dragon 64, strongly resembled the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer ("CoCo")—both followed a standard Motorola datasheet configuration for the...
x Fujitsu Fujitsu Logo   MSX
Fujitsu Limited (富士通株式会社, Fujitsū Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational computer hardware and IT services company headquartered in the Shiodome City Center complex in Minato, Tokyo.. Fujitsu's central focus is on providing IT-driven business...
x GoldStar GoldStar   MSX
GoldStar was an electronics company established in 1958. The corporate name was changed to LG Electronics and LG Cable in 1995. LG Cable was changed to LS Cable in 2005. GoldStar manufactured a wide variety of products, including radios, televisions...
x Gradiente Gradiente 04   MSX
Gradiente is a Brazilian consumer electronics company based in São Paulo. The company designs and markets many product lines, including video (including televisions, and DVD players), audio, home theater, high end acoustics, office and mobile stereo...
PlayStation 3
x Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi Logo   MSX
Hitachi Ltd. (株式会社日立製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Hitachi Seisakusho) (TYO: 6501, NYSE: HIT) is a Japanese multinational corporation specializing in high-technology and services headquartered in Marunouchi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the...
MSX2
x JVC JVC Logo   MSX
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (日本ビクター株式会社, Nippon Bikutā Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6792), usually referred to as JVC, is a Japanese international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927. The...
MSX2
x Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Logo   MSX
The Mitsubishi Group (三菱グループ, Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese conglomerate consisting of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy. The Mitsubishi...
MSX2
x National National logo   MSX
National was a brand used by Panasonic Corporation (formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances and was the first name used by Konosuke Matsushita's electric firm to sell...
MSX2
x Panasonic     MSX
Panasonic (パナソニック Panasonikku) is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation (formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) Under this brand the company sells plasma and LCD display...
MSX turbo R
MSX2+
MSX2
x Philips Philips HQ in Amsterdam   MSX
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics Inc.), most commonly known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is a Dutch electronics company. Philips is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. In 2007, its sales...
MSX2
x Pioneer Corporation Pioneer Corporation   MSX
Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社, Paionia Kabushiki-kaisha) (TYO: 6773) is a multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair...
x Sanyo Sanyo   MSX
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (三洋電機株式会社, San'yō Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6764, NASDAQ: SANYY) is a major electronics company and member of the Fortune 500 whose headquarters is located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo targets the middle...
MSX2+
MSX2
x Samsung Electronics /guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000049bebf7   MSX
Samsung Electronics (SEC, Korean: 삼성전자) (KRX: 005930, KRX: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is the world's largest electronics company, headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the largest South Korean company and the flagship...
MSX2
x Sharp Corporation Sharp Head Office   MSX
Sharp Corporation (シャープ株式会社, Shāpu Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6753, LuxSE: SRP) is a Japanese electronics manufacturer, founded in September 1912. It takes its name from one of its founder's first inventions, the Ever-Sharp mechanical pencil, which was...
Sharp Mebius NJ70A
x Spectravideo SV-318   MSX
Spectravideo, or SVI, was a U.S. computer company founded in 1981 as "SpectraVision" by Harry Fox. They originally made video games for Atari 2600 and VIC-20. Some of their computers were MSX-compliant or IBM PC compatible. Their first attempt at a...
MSX2
x Talent     MSX
Based in Argentina.
MSX2
x Toshiba Toshiba logo   MSX
Toshiba Corporation (Japanese: 株式会社東芝, Kabushiki-gaisha Tōshiba) (TYO: 6502) (pronounced: Toe-SHE-buh; japanese pronunciation closer to: TOH-she-bah) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The...
Toshiba Satellite
x Yamaha Yamaha Logo   MSX
The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社, Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha) (TYO: 7951) is a multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, motorcycles, power sports equipment,...
MSX2
x Yashica A Yashica FX-3 with a 500mm mirror lens   MSX
Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras. The company began in December, 1949 in Nagano, Japan, when the Yashima Seiki Company was founded with an initial investment of $566. Its eight employees originally manufactured components for electric...
x Kyocera Kyocera-hq-01   MSX
Kyocera Corporation (京セラ株式会社, Kyōsera Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. (京都セラミツク株式会社, Kyōto Seramikku Kabushiki-gaisha) in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982....
x ACVS     MSX2+  
MSX2
x DDX     MSX2+
Based in Brazil, sold MSX upgrade kits.
MSX2
x Zemmix     MSX
Zemmix, trade mark and brand name of South Korean electronics company Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd., is an MSX-based video game console brand. The brand name Zemmix is no longer in use. Under the name Zemmix, Daewoo released a series of gaming...
x D4 Enterprise     1chipMSX  
x Cray Cray2   Cray X2
Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) is a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Already a legend in his field by this time, Cray put...
x Cray Research, Inc.     Cray X-MP  
x Evans & Sutherland     Evans & Sutherland ES-1
Evans & Sutherland (NASDAQ: ESCC) is a computer firm involved in the computer graphics field. Their products are used primarily by the military and large industrial firms for training and simulation, and in digital projection environments like...
x E.S.R. Inc.   Digi-Comp Digi-Comp I
E.S.R., Inc. was an American manufacturer of educational toys during the 1960s. The company’s founders included William H. Duerig and Irving J. Lieberman, both involved in missile research at Kearfott Guidance in New Jersey, and C. David Hogan, an...
Digi-Comp II
x OMRON Omron Kyoto 01   OMRON Luna-88K
Omron Corporation (オムロン株式会社, Omuron Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6645) is a Japanese electronics company based in Kyoto. Omron was established by Kazuma Tateishi (立石一真) in 1933 and incorporated in 1948. Omron's primary business is the manufacture and...
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