A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith

The article details a project to strip the Dick Smith-branded VZ200 of its Australian label, restoring the original Hong Kong-manufactured VTech hardware, repairing its keyboard and video, and adding a USB serial port for 57.6 kbps Z80-assembly data transfers. It also recounts VTech’s 1976 founding by Allan Wong and Stephen Leung, early Pong-style consoles, and the divergent market paths of the NTSC VZ200 versus the Australian rebadged version.