The Amstrad PC was a compatible computer system which was
first manufactured in 1986 by the company ‘Amstrad’.
It was originally released for £499 and sold well as it was
seen as one of the cheapest computers (PCs) in Europe. It helped open up the
European PC market to the public as well as it did for businesses and ‘Amstrad’
advertising.
The Amstrad PC used an "enhanced" CGA graphic mode, which was able to display 640x200 pixels with 16 colours (or grayscale). It was sold with MS-DOS 3.2, DR-DOS plus 1.2 (an operating system from Digital Research), GEM (a graphic interface), GEMPAINT and GEM BASIC.
Amstrad launched the Amstrad DMP3000 printer which consisted
of an 80 character dox matrix printer with IBM and Espon compatibility and
boasted NLQ (Near Letter Quality) and was able to handle both A4 and fanfold
paper. It was only able to connect to a computer via a parallel port.
Amstrad is a British company that focus on electronics,
which is now owned by BSkyB. In 2006, Amstrad decided to make its main business
manufacturing Sky Digital Interactive boxes.
Amstrad was founded in 1968 by a successful business man
Lord Alan Sugar at the age of 21. The name ‘Amstrad’ is a contraction of Alan Michael Sugar Trading.
Reference;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=183
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