Canadian Computers (was: Re: AES 7100)

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Lawrence Walker wrote: Don't you have a MICOM or something that is Canadian-made? Does my "Made in Canada" VIC-20 count? ;) Is the MAX related at all to the Comterm Max? The high school I attended added some Comterm Max machines in '85 or '86, and there's a photo of another Walker using one in the 1986 yearbook (any relation of yours? ;) ). I still can't remember the name of the Quebec Government's French imports, so maybe these are them. When it comes to clone machines, there must be scores of cheesy little Canadian Apple ][ clones about. Like my Microcom. I've passed up at least 10 Microcoms over the years (all with slightly different keyboards). A friend of mine has a Unitron II+ clone, there were Granny Smiths, Oranges, McIntoshes, Lemons, etc... And there are always the "here today, gone the same day" PC clones that aren't really worth mentioning. My father had a "TEC MASTER Advanced System AT+" (<- from front plate) from "Canadian Data", which I think was just a run-of-the-mill-who-cares IBM-AT clone. It died when the batteries (four AA cells stuck to the power supply with double-sided tape that gave-way) leaked onto the motherboard. Were there any other _real_ computer companies up here? Companies that did something original instead of just slapping a badge on a Korean clonebox? (I'm not asking about expansion card companies for PCs (e.g. Matrox), just about companies that did something classic, genuinely interesting and/or historically important.) We could probably make a claim on Commodore the same way we claim Alexander Graham Bell, but the computer business was mostly based elsewhere. :) -- Doug Spence ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/