Amstrad PC1512 | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1986
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Intel 8086, 8 MHz
- RAM: 512 KB (could be expanded to 640 KB)
- FDD: 1 or 2, 5.25″ floppy disks
- HDD: (optional 10 or 20 MB)
- Audio: PC speaker
- Connectors/Ports: serial, parallel, three ISA expansion, RGB, mouse, joystick
- Case: Desktop type
- Monitor: Color or Monochrome
- OS: MS-DOS 3.2 or DOS Plus
The Amstrad PC1512 has an Intel 8086 processor at 8 MHz and memory of 512 up to 640kB. Equipped with up to two floppy disks of 5.25” and an HDD of up to 20MB it ran with the operating system of the MS-DOS 3.2 or DOS Plus version.
Amstrad was founded back in 1968 by Alan Sugar. Originally the name of the company was AMS Trading, deriving from acronyms Alan Michael Sugar Trading Limited Company. The corporation involved in various divisions. Among them were the television, car stereo cassettes, amplifiers and tuners. Later on Amstrad focused on personal computers – portable ones as well- telecommunications and satellite systems.
During the 1980s expanding business, Amstrad entered the computer manufacturing market. The principal aim was to present competition to rivals of that time, Commodore and Sinclair. It gradually introduced to consumers the CPC range and later to PCW, PPC ones. Primarily, they were word processors equipped with integrated printers, while personal computers followed along. During the 1990s the company aimed more on computer portability, while trying in the meantime enter the video game console division as well.
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PC.GR
The history of personal computers
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