Amstrad CPC 464 computer.
In 1980, Amstrad shares issued on the London Stock Exchange, doubling the size each year during the early years. Amstrad began marketing their own personal computers in an attempt to capture the market with the Sinclair and Commodore CPC 464 in 1984. The computer, based on a Zilog Z80 8-bit, 3.7 MHz and 64 Kbytes of RAM also includes the tape drive and a monitor (or phosphorous green color) with integrated power supply. The CPC range was launched in the UK, France, Australia, Germany and Spain, where he was a bestseller. He failed to oust competitors, but now every game for home computer that has aspirations of success of these sales are versions for three systems.
Followed CPC 664 models, with disk drive, 3 ", and CPC 6128 with 128 Kbytes of RAM and a keyboard supposedly more professional and discreet, but identical to the manufacturing of other models. Variants subsequent CPC " Plus " (1990) attempted to extend the life of the product significantly increasing their functionality while maintaining compatibility with the GX4000, Amstrad's brief foray into the realm of the game. Unfortunately, the CPC Plus could not compete with the emerging 16-bit computers went on tiptoe by the market, finally dying shortly after their departure.
In 1985 he entered the Amstrad PCW, which is marketed as a word processor at a price of 399 pounds sterling (competitors went for 10,000 pounds), who literally sweeps the target market, even overwhelmed, because in the end, in a computer compatible with the operating system CP / M and that includes the number of word processor LocoScript.
Amsoft, the software division of Amstrad clothing created for the launch of 464, is effective in its work of converting the format extrano Compact Floppy disk 3 inches of the vast library of soft CP / M, which is easier to locate in dBase II Europe in this format than in the native 5.25.
Amstrad briefly entered the market for videogame consoles with the GX4000, based on the CPC Plus, it never reached great popularity. Actually, the video game was a CPC Plus no keyboard and only provided the unit equipped both cartridges that the CPC and the CPC 464 Plus 6128 Plus. It was sold along with the two pads that are also officially distributed with computers. Despite its discreet presence in the market and low sales had some remarkable games Mystical or as Switchblade.
The ZX Spectrum 2. This was the first new model launched by Amstrad Spectrum after purchase of the range.
On April 7, 1986 Amstrad announced it had purchased from Sinclair Research "... worldwide rights to manufacture and sale of all of Sinclair computers so far, along with Sinclair and trademark intellectual property rights relating to computers and accessories. , including the ZX Spectrum, for 5 million pounds. Amstrad launches three new variants of the Spectrum, Spectrum 2, based on the Spectrum 128K with an integrated tape drive (like the CPC 464) Spectrum 3, with an integrated hard drive (similar to CPC 664 and 6128), using the same discs from 3 "to other machines Amstrad, and a completely new motherboard, and the Spectrum 2A / 2B, using the plate 3 in a box with a 2 tape drive.
The company produced a range of inexpensive personal computers based on MS-DOS and later Microsoft Windows, the first of which was the PC1512 for 399 in 1986. Was a success, capturing more than 25 of the European market. A year later, in 1987, launched the PCW 8512 computer as a dedicated word processing at a price of 499. In 1988 the first attempt to make personal laptop computer with PPC 512 / 640, one year before the Macintosh Portable, 8MHz to running MS-DOS and GEM with a variant of the CGA video card that enabled GEM graphics display in 16 colors .
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