{"id":884,"date":"2012-07-23T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2012-07-23T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T17:44:02","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-canon-as-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/884\/retro-scan-of-the-week-canon-as-100","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Canon AS-100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/canon_as-100_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/canon_as-100_small.jpg\" alt=\"Canon AS-100 Microcomputer Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The good, the bad, and the obscure.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a vast wilderness of little-known business micros that have long been overshadowed by the IBM PC and its brethren in the history books.  Seen here is one such machine, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?st=1&#038;c=591\" target=\"_blank\">Canon AS-100<\/a>, which sported an Intel 8088 CPU but was not an IBM PC clone (in other words, it could run MS-DOS, but was not hardware compatible with the PC).<\/p>\n<p>Machines like this one tend to get overlooked historically because they were very expensive (this machine retailed for $3495 in 1983, or about $8,052 today) and they deviated from the emerging business standard of the IBM PC compatible.  With those two elements combined, they sold relatively poorly &#8212; and, being business-oriented, they also never became notable gaming platforms (enthusiasm for retrogaming brings a lot of attention to certain classic PCs that otherwise might have been forgotten).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of gaming platforms, the color capabilities of this machine look amazing for 1983.  I wonder if anyone ever did write a game for it that took advantage of those high-end graphical specs.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal Computing, November 1983, p.36 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the most obscure computer model you&#8217;ve ever used? Something that you think no one has ever heard of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good, the bad, and the obscure. There&#8217;s a vast wilderness of little-known business micros that have long been overshadowed by the IBM PC and its brethren in the history books. Seen here is one such machine, the Canon AS-100, which sported an Intel 8088 CPU but was not an IBM PC clone (in other [&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":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}