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Uploaded by on Aug 22, 2007

Expensive for those days wasn't it.

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  • I somehow don't think those PCW's being bounced around in this video would survive that kind of rough handling, not much does. I've seen video footage of these on YouTube and I find it interesting that games were developed for them given that they were supposed to be word processing business computers.

  • I've got one of these computers in my collection. Really nice machine.

  • amstrads were cutting edge in there day i always found the coulor pallete on the cpc's were better than the spectrums

  • lool i still have a blue AMSTRAD mousepad! :D i think someone would pay a lot for it nowadays....

  • I've got an old CPC 464

  • Yes 256 and 512KB RAM BUT!!!! The Z80 could only access 64 KB of RAM at a time ...lame bank switching. I have some cpcs now best basic ever but luck of sprite engine. Only plus models have.

  • laughable I know but most computers at the time had 64kb!

    Also it was a PCW...personal Computer word processor. A Computer that was specifically designed for word processing. So yes it was very fast at the time for what it was.

    but it was sh*te for games because it had minimal memory reserved for graphics and sound.

    Laughable now...but at a time when half the people were still using typewriters or word processors on C64s or 8088s it made a lot of sense to buy this!!

  • lol

  • i had a zx.81 it took me 2 hours to load this pic's of a fish i think?

  • I wonder how many people saw this and thought, if only I had once of those, I could become a writer.

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