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LK-selectable Brand Names

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As an Orion branded CPC has been found, moved it to the "Somehow used" category
=== Awa ===
[[File:Awa CPC464Amstrad-awa-thorn.jpg|thumb|left|120px|Awa CPC 464Thorn]]'''Mitsubishi Electric AWA Pty Ltd./ AWA-Thorn''' distributed CPC computers in Australia. Externally, these CPCs are looking look identical to english English CPCs (with the normal Amstrad logo above the ESC key). Internally, LK1 and LK2 are shortenedshorted, so the BIOS displays "[[Awa]]" instead of Amstrad in the boot message. Whereas, Amstrad made a small mistake: The correct name would be "AWA", not "Awa".
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However, some US export models from Spain were produced with the Solavox setting. Why this has happened, if those models actually reached the USA, and if Solavox UK was aware of this operation is unknown. For details, see the [[Solavox]] page.
 
== Unused Brand Names ==
=== Orion ===
'''ORION Electric Co,. Ltd.''' is a japanese company, founded 1958 by Shigemasa Otake. In [[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 far as At least one "[[Orion]]" branded CPC is known, the partnership didnto exist and has been found in China. We don't worked in that direction - know yet if it was just a demonstration unit for a trade show, or if it was effectively distributed there have been no CPCs sold using the Orion brandin confidential quantities. Two manuals and catalogs in Chinese were also found. 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).
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== Unused Brand Names ==
=== Isp ===
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