When the Amstrad CPC range entered the market, plenty of personal home computers were already available.
As the Amstrad CPC was complete and ready to use at a fair price, it managed to conquer good parts of the 8 bit market... And many computers were promptly removed from the market thanks to Amstrad.
Notable Z80-based computers:
- Sinclair (ZX80/81, ZX Spectrum) (UK)
- Amstrad PCW (UK)
- Enterprise 64/128 (UK)
- Camputers Lynx (UK)
- Memotech MTX (UK)
- Sam Coupé (UK)
- Klein-Computer (KC85, KC87, KC Compact) (Germany)
- Philips VG 5000 (France)
- Micronique Hector (USA / France)
- Tandy TRS-80 (USA)
- Mattel Aquarius (USA)
- Coleco Adam (USA)
- MSX Standard (various producers)
- Sega SC-3000 (Japan)
- Sord M5 (Japan)
- NEC PC (PC-6001, PC-6601, PC-8001, PC-8801) (Japan)
- Sharp (MZ, X1) (Japan)
- Toshiba Pasopia (Japan)
- EG2000 Colour Genie (Hong Kong)
- Tatung Einstein (Taiwan / UK)
- MicroBee (Australia)
Notable 6502-based computers:
- Commodore (PET, VIC-20, C64, Plus/4) (USA)
- Apple II (USA)
- Atari 8 bit (USA)
- Acorn (Atom, BBC Micro, Electron) (UK)
- Oric (UK / France)
Other notable 8-bit computers:
- Thomson (MO5, TO7...) (France)
- Exelvision EXL100 (France)
- Matra Alice (USA / France)
- Tandy CoCo (USA)
- Dragon computers (UK)
- COMX-35 (Hong Kong)
- Fujitsu Micro (Japan)
Notable 8-bit machines with dual CPUs:
- Commodore SuperPET (6502+6809)
- Commodore 128 (6502+Z80)
- Tandy TRS-80 Model 16 (Z80+68000)
- MSX Turbo-R (Z80+R800)
- Sharp MZ-2800 (Z80+80286)
- Matra Alice 8000 (6803+8088)