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Old 10th Aug 2019, 6:56 pm   #25
Pfraser
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Default Re: The Amstrad Times.

Amstrad products certainly weren't the best in terms of design and build quality. But at least Alan has been honest about his 'mug's eyeful' approach.

You could argue that Amstrad served as a technological enabler. The first 'proper' computer I used was his desktop word processing setup, with a green display, clacky & uncomfortable keyboard and a dot matrix printer. Not the best, but the IT training centre I attended had been able to create a new course based around these Amstrads.

A budding musician I knew had a clunky and somewhat ugly Amstrad twin cassette ghetto blaster, loaded with extra features not normally found in that price bracket. It didn't sound particularly brilliant, but it helped him to create and learn.
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