Editing MSX (section)

===Debut===
[[File:YAMAYAMA.JPG|thumb|Yamaha YIS503II MSX Personal Computer designed for Soviet schools—the abbreviature "КУВТ" means "Class of Teaching Computing Equipment)"]]
[[File:Canon V-20 MSX computer.jpg|thumb|The [[Canon V-20]] has 64&nbsp;KB of [[Random-access memory|RAM]] and the [[Canon V-10|V-10]] has 16&nbsp;KB.]]

On June 27, 1983,<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 8, 2010 |title=The Toshiba MSX (HX-10) 64K |url=http://retrovideogamesystems.com/the-toshiba-hx-10-64k-msx/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909063157/http://retrovideogamesystems.com/the-toshiba-hx-10-64k-msx/ |archive-date=September 9, 2011 |access-date=August 25, 2011 |website=RetroVideoGameSystems.com}}</ref> the MSX was formally announced during a press conference, and a slew of big Japanese firms declared their plans to introduce the machines. The Japanese companies avoided the intensely competitive U.S. home computer market, which was in the throes of a [[Commodore International|Commodore]]-led [[price war]]. Only Spectravideo and Yamaha briefly marketed MSX machines in the U.S. Spectravideo's MSX enjoyed very little success, and Yamaha's [[Yamaha CX5M|CX5M]] model, built to interface with various types of [[MIDI]] equipment, was billed more as a digital music tool than a standard personal computer.