Need help identifying this computer
Posted by Current_Yellow7722@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 6 comments
Is this associated with the Canon Cat word processor or is this an Australian brand? I can't find any specific information about this.
Strange_Ad_4682@reddit
Been looking for one myself. Extremely rare.
AppropriateCap8891@reddit
Dick Smith was a chain of electronics stores in Australia and New Zealand from 1968-2016. And in the early 1980s they sold several clones of popular computers of the era. The Cat was an Apple II clone, and the System 80 was a TRS-80 clone.
The era of clones like this was short, because of lawsuits from the companies that made the originals, then Commodore releasing the lower priced VIC-20 and C-64 which fulfilled the need of a good low cost computer.
Kymeron@reddit
It’s the Dock Smith Cat, a rebadged Laser 3000 apple II clone.
Current_Yellow7722@reddit (OP)
Dick Smith Cat, thanks, looking that up.
Kitchen_Part_882@reddit
It's a rebadged V-Tech Laser 3000, an Apple IIe clone made in Hong Kong.
https://vtech.fandom.com/wiki/Laser_3000_Personal_Computer
sf_sf_sf@reddit
According to Wikipedia, this was a private labeled Apple II clone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Smith_(retailer)