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Initial Australian CPCs were distributed by '''Mitsubishi Electric AWA Pty Ltd'''.<br>Externally, these CPCs look identical to the English CPCs (with the normal [[Amstrad]] logo above the ESC key).<br>Internally, [[LK Links|LK1 and LK2]] are shorted, so the BIOS displays ''Awa'' instead of Amstrad in the boot message:   AWA were the Australian distributor from initial CPC launch till around 1987/88 when Amstrad set up office in Australia.<br>So early 464 & 6128's had "Awa" on startup/reset & later just the usual "Amstrad".All Australian delivered 664's had "Awa" on startup. <br>

<br>AWA were the Australian distributor from initial CPC launch till around 1987/88 when Amstrad set up office in Australia.<br>So early 464 & 6128's had "Awa" on startup/reset & later just the usual "Amstrad".<br>All Australian delivered 664's had "Awa" on startup.<br><br>The Australian variant is much less known than the German variant (which displays [[Schneider]] in the boot message, and which also has a Schneider logo on the keyboard). <br>The Awa's were mentioned at [http://amstrad.cpc.free.fr/article.php?sid=13 amstrad.cpc.free.fr], and, confirmed in [http://cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php/topic,680.msg7949.html#msg7949 cpcwiki.eu/forum] (where, two australian users replied, one saying ,

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