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ORION is japanese company, founded 1958 by Shigemasa Otake. In an [[LK-selectable Brand Names#Interview|the interview]], Cliff Lawson has confirmed that Amstrad planned to export CPCs to "far east", using [[Orion]] as a partner. As with some other brand names, Amstrad 'converted' the upper-case "ORION" to "Orion" in the boot message.
As far as known, the partnership didn't worked in that direction - there have been no CPCs sold using the Orion brand. However, it worked the opposite way around: Amstrads [[CTM640/CTM644]] and [[GT64/GT65]] monitors contain cathode ray tubes from ORION. Some webpages also mention that the CPC computer itself was manufactured by Orion (in Korea).
Considering that Amstrad did have some relations with ORION, it doesn't seem too unlikely that they also planned to work with ISP KG. Although, as far as known, ISP never rebadged the ORION products as ISP products, so there would have been no real requirement for the [[Isp]] boot message.
 
The [[LK-selectable Brand Names#Interview|interview]] doesn't reveal any details on Isp.
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Saisho is a japanese-sounding brand name used by the UK based retailer Dixons (Currys).
According to http://www.audiotools.com, the [[Saisho]] brand is [possibly among others] used "for low budget, Asian sourced products".
 
The [[LK-selectable Brand Names#Interview|interview]] confirms that Amstrad was referring to this company.
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