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Amstrad PC2286

Amstrad PC · 1989

Amstrad moving upmarket: a 286 at 12MHz with VGA on the board, aimed at the business buyer who had outgrown a 1512. The 2000 series is where Amstrad's reputation turned, having shipped with a troubled 3.5-inch drive and a hard disk controller that earned the company a famous amount of bad press. That history is most of the interest — it is the machine that ended Amstrad's run as Britain's volume PC maker.

As catalogued

Maker
Amstrad
CPU
Intel 80286-12
Memory
1MiB
Styles
single drive, 30MB disk, 40MB disk
Regions
UK, Europe
Chassis
desktop with three expansion slots
OS
MS-DOS 3.3 / GEM

Chips

2
CPU
Intel 80286
FPU
Intel 80287

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