{"id":1033,"date":"2014-03-24T08:21:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-03-25T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:57:03","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-canon-personal-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1033\/retro-scan-of-the-week-canon-personal-computer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Canon Personal Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/canon_pc_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/canon_pc_small.jpg\" alt=\"Canon Personal Computer IBM PC compatible clone Advertisement 1985\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>May the Clone Wars begin.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another obscure IBM PC clone from the depths of time, the Canon Personal Computer.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1030\/retro-scan-of-the-week-visual-1050\" target=\"_blank\">recent RSOTW<\/a>, it was pretty easy &#8212; even within a few years of the IBM PC&#8217;s release &#8212; to undercut IBM price-wise by integrating ports and peripherals directly into the motherboard of a competing computer.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the Canon PC used an Intel 8086 CPU, which packed the full 16-bit data bus (verses the 8-bit bus on the IBM PC&#8217;s 8088).<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From TIME (Small Business USA Insert), May 6 1985, p.2]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Canon is best known for its imaging products, but it made computers too.  Can you think of any other companies best known for something else that made a PC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the Clone Wars begin. Here&#8217;s another obscure IBM PC clone from the depths of time, the Canon Personal Computer. As I mentioned in a recent RSOTW, it was pretty easy &#8212; even within a few years of the IBM PC&#8217;s release &#8212; to undercut IBM price-wise by integrating ports and peripherals directly into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[72,150,766,767,133,768,60,769],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-72","tag-advertisement","tag-canon","tag-canon-personal-computer","tag-ibm-pc","tag-pc-clones","tag-retro-scan","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}