Amstrad
Amstrad is a British electronics company. As of 2006, Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky Digital interactive boxes.
Amstrad was founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar at the age of 21. The name is a contraction of Alan Michael Sugar Trading. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1980. During the late 1980s, Amstrad had a substantial share of the PC market in the UK. Amstrad was once a FTSE 100 Index constituent but since 2007 is wholly owned by BSkyB.
The company has offices in Kings Road, Brentwood, Essex.
History
1960s and 1970s
Amstrad was founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar at the age of 21, the name of the original company being AMS Trading (Amstrad) Limited, derived from its founder's initials (Alan Michael Sugar). Amstrad entered the market in the field of consumer electronics. During the 1970s they were at the forefront of low-priced hi-fi, TV and car stereo cassette technologies. Lower prices were achieved by injection moulding plastic hi-fi turntable covers, undercutting competitors who used the vacuum forming process.
PC1512
The Amstrad PC1512 was Amstrad's mostly IBM PC-compatible computer system, first manufactured in 1986. It was later succeeded by the PC1640.
It launched for £499 and sold very well, as it was one of the first cheap PCs in Europe. It significantly helped open up the European PC market to consumers as well as businesses, and Amstrad's advertising of the PC1512 was aimed at homes rather than offices. The 1512's influence was such that the UK PC magazine PC Plus originally targeted itself at the "Amstrad PC 1512 and compatibles", since home ownership of other PCs at the time was rare.
The PC1512 shipped with 512 KB of RAM; it could be upgraded to 640 KB of RAM with an expansion pack commonly known as a "top hat". Video output was compatible with the CGA standard, with an extension allowing all 16 colours to be used in the 640×200 graphics mode. The CPU of both the PC1512 and the later PC1640 was an 8 MHz Intel 8086, which was sufficient for playing The Secret of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Prince of Persia. The power supply was located in the monitor, which made upgrading difficult.
Amstrad CPC
The Amstrad CPC (short for Colour Personal Computer) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.
The series spawned a total of six distinct models: The CPC464, CPC664, and CPC6128 were highly successful competitors in the European home computer market. The later plus models, 464plus and 6128plus, efforts to prolong the system's lifecycle with hardware updates, were considerably less successful, as was the attempt to repackage the plus hardware into a game console as the GX4000.
The CPC models' hardware is based on the Zilog Z80A CPU, complemented with either 64 or 128 KB of RAM. Their computer-in-a-keyboard design prominently features an integrated storage device, either a compact cassette deck or 3 inch floppy disk drive. The main units were only sold bundled with either a colour or monochrome monitor that doubles as the main unit's power supply. Additionally, a wide range of first and third party hardware extensions such as external disk drives, printers, and memory extensions, was available.
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Released 2009- Educating the Market Forces
- Black Card
- Death by Steril
- Constantinopla Rising
- Gazpacho Is Death
- Juan Vega: Youth and the Hour of Decision
- Requiem for a Saturday Nighter
- Amstrad Revolt Against the Anti-Sex League
- Asturias SxE Representing
- Variables
- Cello in Beta Mode
- Intra-System
- Piano Test
- Adagio for Future
- Concorde
- Stand By
- Can You Guys Say Beta?
- Gears for Fears
- Y Highway (live)
- Trubia II (live)
- Can You Guys Say Beta? (live)
- Ride of the Valkyrie
- Alvin
- Adagio for Future (DJ Change Code-In-E mix)
- Troops From Trubia
- Neo North Nation
- Autovía del Cantábrico
- Donicella vs. Oso
- CEASA afina en Mi bemol
- Penedo Aballón
- The End
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You Really Touched My Heart
by: Amii StewartI wandered down to your place,
It won't be the same
Face to face, I look at you
But you turned away
Where did we go wrong
after love so long?
Where is the love I once knew?
Oh You-oo, You really touched my heart,
I never knew-oo that love could go so far
So capture the moment before it's all over with you
I walk away but it's hard
when half of me could stay
You can call out my name,
but our love will never, never be the same
Where did we go wrong
after love so long?
Where is the love I once knew?
Oh You-oo, You really touched my heart,
I never knew-oo that love could go so far
Oh You-oo, You really touched my heart,
So capture the moment before it's all over with you,
Ooh-Ooh...
(Instrumental)
Where did we go wrong
after love so long?
Where is the love I once knew?
Oh You-oo, You really touched my heart,
I never knew-oo that love could go so far
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, Capture the moment)
So, capture the moment
before it's all over
So, capture the moment
before it's all over
You-oo, You really touched my heart,
I never knew-oo, never knew, never knew that love could go so far
You-oo, You really touched my heart
So capture the moment before it's all over with you
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