CPU
Intel 8086
Amstrad PC1512
Amstrad PC · 1986
The machine that broke the price of the PC in Britain. Amstrad sold a complete 16-bit computer with monitor, mouse and GEM for under £400 in 1986 and took a quarter of the European market with it. Everything is subordinate to that price: the power supply is in the monitor, so the machine will not run without one, and there is no fan — which is why so many died of heat.
As catalogued
- Maker
- Amstrad
- CPU
- Intel 8086-8
- Memory
- 512K
- Styles
- single drive (SD), twin drive (DD), 10MB disk (HD10), 20MB disk (HD20), Schneider PC1512 (Germany)
- Regions
- UK, Europe
- Chassis
- desktop, with the power supply in the monitor
- OS
- MS-DOS 3.2 / DOS Plus / GEM
Chips
FPU
Intel 8087
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