Spectravideo
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Spectravideo or SVI was a US company making MSX computers. The company was founded in 1977 as SpectraVision. In the early days they made video games for Atari 2600 and VIC-20.
Their first computers were SV-318 and SV-328 released in 1983. Both were powered by a Z80 A at 3.6 MHz, but differed in the amount of RAM. SV-318 had 16 KB and SV-328 had 64 KB. The Kernel was CP/M and the OS a version of Microsoft Extended Basic. These two computers was pre MSX and not fully compatible to the standard. The system had a wide range of optional hardware, for example a Colecovision-adapter making it possible to run the Coleco games on the SVI.
The company also produced a large number of different joysticks and gamepads.
The last computer produced was the SVI-838, aka X'Press 16, but the company still operated under the name Logic 3.