Spectravideo

The company was founded in 1981 as Spectravision by Harry Fox and Oscar Jutzeler. Spectravision was a distributor of games for the Atari VCS, Colecovision and VIC-20 platforms mainly. In 1982 the company was renamed to Spectravideo, now also producing joysticks (Quickshot) and an add-on to the Atari VCS to turn it to a basic computer, the Compumate. The Spectravideo line of computers was launched in 1983. In Sweden the Spectravideo brand was imported by Ronex AB and sold through the Swedish government owned public telecommunication company Televerket. I specialize on the Spectravideo brand, because I discovered programming on this computer although I never owned one. I spent a lot of time with playing games and programming in BASIC at a friend of mine that had a SVI-318. I was convinced to buy one, but when my parents finally approved to buy a computer, the market for the Spectravideo had went down and Commodore 64 dominated the scene so I decided to buy a C64 instead.