Hey folks,

I recently remembered that some 6x86 were made at ST's Canadian plant, then of course ATI and Adlib were originally Canadian, as was Guillemot and Seanix who made motherboards and systems.

So what configurations can we come up with with the majority of components at least designed in Canada, maybe assembled in Canada, and at best actually diffused in Canadian Fabs ???

Off the top of my head, one such config might be, 6x86 PR166, Seanix Yukon TX motherboard, ATI RageII, and one of the post buyout Adlib cards which were still Canadian made for a couple of years, or a Guillemot one which would score equal. (Gold is both too expensive and doesn't really do anything for a socket 7 era system)

Not sure if a 486 class can also get as close, think ST mainly used french fabs for the 486 class. Other generations of CPU and second sources inside Canada I have not much remembrance of, but maybe there's others.

Off the shelf as it were there are Seanix systems around which are quite high scorers, they have motherboard, GPU by Seanix that are Canadian designed, not sure of manufacture locations for the components though. Though they tended to favor Intel CPU in their assembled systems which I don't know of any ever being made in Canada, so lose points there. Motherboard chipset were intel usually, and GPU chipset nVidia.

Need some ideas about how to work the scoring, I was thinking simplistically, for each board/component 5 points for designed in Canada (Company HQ in Canada) 7 points for Canadian assembly and 10 points for Canadian semiconductors, that's non additive scoring... but then was wondering if it was better to score each part separately, in which case 5 points for each category maybe?? Though I wonder whether to have 5 points for main ASIC being Canadian fabbed and 2 points if ancillary chips are Canadian, like ST made logic or something.

Anyone remember any other components that had Canadian connections through the years, any Hard Drives? Memory Modules? NICs? PSU?