Hector - Revision history

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Phi2x: /* Links */

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‎Links

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Phi2x: /* Hector HR.MX */

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‎Hector HR.MX

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 The last model introduced was the Hector HR.MX, with production of the series ending in 1985. The series was not successful, due to the focus on the French market, a weak software lineup, intense competition from Amstrad machines and high prices.
-The Hector range has never found its audience, as the French market was dominated by [[Thomson]] and [[Oric-1/Atmos|Oric]], and then by the newcomer, Amstrad, which will take over everything.
+The Hector range has never found its audience, as the French market was dominated by [[Thomson]] and [[Oric-1/Atmos|Oric]], and then by the newcomer, [[CPC|Amstrad]], which will take over everything.
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 The last model introduced was the Hector HR.MX, with production of the series ending in 1985. The series was not successful, due to the focus on the French market, a weak software lineup, intense competition from Amstrad machines and high prices.
-The Hector range has never found its audience, as the French market was dominated by Thomson and Oric, and then by the newcomer, Amstrad, which will take over everything.
+The Hector range has never found its audience, as the French market was dominated by [[Thomson]] and [[Oric-1/Atmos|Oric]], and then by the newcomer, Amstrad, which will take over everything.
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 =Links=
 *[http://hectorvictor.free.fr/ Hector] L'ordinateur personnel français
 *[https://youtu.be/J7qlBSlOjgw Interact, Victor & Hector - Histoire d'une lignée 8-bit] by [[Olipix]]

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 The last model introduced was the Hector HR.MX, with production of the series ending in 1985. The series was not successful, due to the focus on the French market, a weak software lineup, intense competition from Amstrad machines and high prices.
-The Hector range has never found its audience, as the French market was dominated by Thomson and ORIC, and then by the newcomer, Amstrad, which will take over everything.
+The Hector range has never found its audience, as the French market was dominated by Thomson and Oric, and then by the newcomer, Amstrad, which will take over everything.
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 In 1983, the Victor is renamed Hector, to avoid confusion with the machines from the Californian company Victor Technologies (formerly Sirius Systems Technology). To add to the confusion, JVC (Japan Victor Company) also had a brand of Victor [[MSX]] computers.
-The last model introduced was the Hector HR.MX, with production of the series ending in 1985. The series was not successful, due to the focus on the French market, intense competition from Amstrad machines and high prices.
+The last model introduced was the Hector HR.MX, with production of the series ending in 1985. The series was not successful, due to the focus on the French market, a weak software lineup, intense competition from Amstrad machines and high prices.
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 [[File:Micronique hector mx.jpg|thumb|right|Hector HR.MX]]
-The Hector HR.MX, released in 1985, is similar to the HRX but offers BASIC, Forth, Logo and Assembly as languages available in ROM.
+Probably aware of the mistake they made by adopting Forth, Micronique released the Hector HR.MX in 1985. It is similar to the HRX but offers BASIC, Forth, Logo and Assembly as languages available in ROM.
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 Lambda Systems went bankrupt in July 1981, along with Interact. In December 1981, Micronique, an electronic components company based in southern Paris, acquires the rights to the Victor Lambda.
-In 1982, Victor Lambda Diffusion, a subsidiary, distributes the Victor Lambda. The first machines built in the United States were not a success, and the following models were designed and produced in France at the headquarters of the Micronique company. The company uses the slogan: "The French Personal Computer".
+In 1982, Victor Lambda Diffusion, a subsidiary, distributes the Victor Lambda. The first machines built in the United States were not a success, and the following models were designed and produced in France at the headquarters of the Micronique company. The company used the slogan: "The French Personal Computer".
 In 1983, the Victor is renamed Hector, to avoid confusion with the machines from the Californian company Victor Technologies (formerly Sirius Systems Technology). To add to the confusion, JVC (Japan Victor Company) also had a brand of Victor [[MSX]] computers.

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 Hector (or Victor Lambda) are a series of a microcomputers produced in France in the early 1980s.
-In January 1980, Michel Henric-Coll founded a company named Lambda Systems in Toulouse, that would import a computer (produced since 1978 by Interact Electronics Inc of Ann Arbor, Michigan) to France. The computer was sold under the name of Victor Lambda.
+In January 1980, Michel Henric-Coll founded a company named Lambda Systems in Toulouse, that would import the Interact Home Computer (produced since 1978 by Interact Electronics Inc of Ann Arbor, Michigan) to France. The computer was sold under the name of Victor Lambda.
 Lambda Systems went bankrupt in July 1981, along with Interact. In December 1981, Micronique, an electronic components company based in southern Paris, acquires the rights to the Victor Lambda.

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