== Tungsram ==[[Image:CTM644 05.jpg|200px|thumb|CTM644 Monitor with ORION cathode ray tube]]This Hungarian company was [[Orion]] is one of the first producers of light bulbs [[LK-selectable Brand Names]] contained in the world and remained CPC BIOS, allowing to display the boot message '''Orion 64K Microcomputer''' on power up. Amstrad apparently planned a large producer of valves and light bulbs until partnership with a company with that name. At least one "Orion" branded CPC is known to have been sold in Shenzhen, China. It is unknown if it was broken up in meant for the early 90Chinese market, Asian market, or imported from Hong Kong. The [[CTM640/CTM644]] and [[GT64/GT65]] monitors contain cathode ray tubes from Orion. 's ''Orion (Japan)''' '''ORION Electric Co,. Ltd.''' is japanese company, founded 1958 by Shigemasa Otake. * http://www.orion-electric.co.jp/en/ '''Orion and ISP KG''' The ISP KG acts eurorean retailer for japanese ORION products (from 1975 until today), mentioned here because the bits sold off to various western companiesCPC BIOS also includes [[Isp]] as selectable brand name, General which may refer to ISP KG. '''Orion Electric bought a large part of it in 1990 (Japan) and so did Shréder a little bit laterOrion Electronics (Hungary)''' Confusingly, there are two ORIONs, both companies operate using the original namenearly identical logos, and both spanning a nearly identical range of products. Made radios For example, both under are selling television sets with the Tungsram ORION brand name and using the . Orion (Hungary), founded in 1913, has confirmed that they are '''not''' related with each other. The [[OrionLK-selectable Brand Names#Interview|Cliff Lawson Interview]] brand, continued making radios and hi-fi products at the least into the 70isn'st perfectly clear which company they were referring to: It only says "far east", produced some of the best valves but not how far. Considering that the CPC and GX4000 were made manufactured in Korea and Japan, it's quite obvious that "far east" meant east Asia to Amstrad; Hungary is central Europe , and should it couldn't even really be called east Europe. [[Category:CPC_related_companies]] Note by dragon: Orion was the manufacturer of amstrad computers/monitor/keyboards and printers, not only the cpc range, the pc range to. This can be confused with some other eastern European productsextrated from the spanish boe. (the official boletin of spanish goverment). Back in 80, as was a imported product amstrad need obtain permison of the goverment to import it. So searching in the boe we can view: 1. Pc 12 md, pc 14 Cd, pc 12hrcd, pc 14 hrcd was manufactured by orion electric( taiwan) co. Ltd in miaoli(taiwan), 2.keyboards pc2086t,pc2286t, pc2386tAre made by orion electric (korea) co. Ltd in gumy(south corea). 3.Airo pc-mm, airo pc cm, keyboard airo 1512,gt-65, ctm-644, keyboard pcw-8512,keyboard pcw-8256, printer pcw 8512 i,printer pcw 8256 i, are made by orion electric (korea) co. Ltd in Gyeungsangbuk-do(corea). 4 , PCW-9512T keyboard , made by «Orion elctric, Co. Ltd.». In kumi(south korea).