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When the Amstrad CPC range entered the market, personnal plenty of personal home computer computers were already available.

The As the Amstrad CPC range was not the best competitor, yet as the product was complete and ready to useat a fair price, it managed to conquer good parts of the 8 bit market...

 Notable [[Z80]]-based computers from this era:

*Micronique [[Hector 2HR ]] (USA / France)*Coleco Adam Tandy TRS-80 (USA)

*Coleco Adam (USA)*[[MSX|MSX Standard]] (various producers, yet a Z80 based technology)*Tatung Einstein (Taiwan / UK)*NEC PC-88 (Japan)*Sharp X1 (Japan)

*VTech Laser NEC PC (PC-6001, PC-6601, PC-8001, PC-8801) (Japan)*Sharp (MZ, X1) (Japan)*Toshiba [[PASOPIA 7|Pasopia]] (Japan)*[[EG2000 Colour Genie]] (Hong Kong)*[[Tatung Einstein]] (Taiwan / UK)

 Notable [[MOS 6502|6502]]-based computers from this era:*Commodore (PET, [[VIC-20]], [[Commodore 64|C64]], Plus/4) (USA)

*Acorn (Atom, [[BBC Micro]], [[Acorn Electron|Electron]]) (UK)

 Other notable 8-bit computers from this era:*[[Thomson|Thomson computers]] (MO5, TO7...) (France)

*COMX-35 (Hong Kong)*Fujitsu Micro 7 (Japan)  Notable 8-bit machines with dual CPUs:*Commodore SuperPET (6502+6809)*Commodore 128 (6502+Z80)*Tandy TRS-80 Model 16 (Z80+68000)*MSX Turbo-R (Z80+R800)*Sharp MZ-2800 (Z80+80286)*Matra Alice 8000 (6803+8088)