Tatung
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Einstein
Released in 1984 with a price tag of
£499 the Einstein
was primarily aimed at the home business market.
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Texas
Instruments
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TI99/4a
A fairly early entrant into the home computer
scene, this
machine was initially released in the UK as the TI99/4 with an
NTSC-only
video output. After realising that nobody in the UK had anything that
could
display NTSC pictures, the machine was re-released as the TI99/4a with
a PAL video output.
Rather uniquely for its time, the machine used
a 16-bit
processor rather than the more common 8-bit ones.
Production of this machine was stopped in
November 1983.
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Texet
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Texet TX-8000
Released in April 1983 and costing £98,
the TX-8000
was, for a short while, the cheapest colour computer available.
Unfortunately,
aside from its price it didn't have all that much else in its favour.
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Tomy
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Tutor
Manufactured by Tomy in Japan, but sold in the
UK by Grandstand,
the Tutor could be used as either a normal computer running the BASIC
language
or as a graphics system.
This machine was also one of the few of its
time to use
a 16-bit processor.
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Toshiba
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Toshiba HX-10
Released in May 1984 at the price of
£279, the HX-10
was Toshiba's MSX offering.
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VTech
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Laser 128
Built by VTech (now manufacturers of
children's toy computers)
in 1984, the Laser 128 was an Apple II clone with a built-in 5¼"
disc drive.
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Yamaha
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Yamaha CX-5
Released in May 1984 at the price of
£600, the CX-5
from Yamaha was one of the more expensive MSX machines. As well as the
standard MSX features, this machine also came with a MIDI interface and
8 channel sound output.
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Yashika
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Yashika YC-64
Released in May 1984, the Yashika's YC-64 was
yet another
MSX machine.
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