What computer would you have ended up with if MSX were never released (in your country)?

C64 here as well. My dad didn't buy it because he heard it was unreliable (the seller told him that he should keep it on for a month and if it still worked then, it is OK... that made him buy the VG 8020 instead...)

i would definitely end up with Spectrum - at the time (back in USSR country, Republic of Ukraine, when we had MSX-es in some of our schools in Kiev where i ended up studying for 3 years before going to university) - there were a big market with cheap Spectrum handmade clones for 15$-25$, price depended of quality of custom case and keyboard also handmade btw while other computers were quite expensive

After a Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum, my dad bought a Sony HB-F700. The built-in floppy drive was a big factor in that decision, iirc.

If he hadn't bought that, I probably would have nagged him long enough until he'd buy a Commodore Amiga. Saw that machine once or twice on club meetings or a fair, and remember being thoroughly impressed by it.

Most friends at school either had a C64, Spectrum, CPC or no computer at all @ home. Later on it was mostly a split. Some went the PC route (386 -> 486 -> 'multimedia' Pentium), some went the 32 bit home computer route (Amiga, Atari ST etc).

When I moved out of my parents' house, first computer I bought (read: could afford at the time) was a Philips VG-8020. Followed by a floppy interface. And quickly after that, my first PC (a 486. DOOOOOMMMM!! ). Never had an Amiga btw. As time passed, that became just one of many 'would like to have'.

I guess first a C64 and maybe after that an Amiga 500.
I am glad my dad came home with a Goldstar MSX, started with a monochrome screen and soon after that it was standing next to the television.
My friends had mostly C64 here in the Netherlands, but I had two friends who also had a MSX, so we started trying games and small BASIC programs, good ol' days

I don't qualify for this thread because MSX was never released in my country