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Face care from Amstrad!
![]() I do love the Double Decker VHS recorder......anyone have one of those. We used to have a video where you programmed the time etc. on the remote and then pressed a button and it sent it to the machine and included weekly/daily scheduled recordings etc. I'm sure it was an Amstrad, but they stopped making them when VideoPlus came on the scene |
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Amstrad is rubbish - SAS is the epitome of 'pile it high sell it cheap'
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Amstrad is rubbish - SAS is the epitome of 'pile it high sell it cheap'
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They used to make computer printers too, dunno if they still do. Mine blew it's circuit board about 2 weeks after it was out of warranty.
They also make the Amstrad emailer phone, which no-one but Sir Alan appears to use! |
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That may be so, but SAS has made a few quid doing it!!
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Yes, and I remember when the only way to get rid of the mountain of unsold PCW9512s was to give them away on gameshows! I know cos my mum won one and gave it to me for my uni write-ups.
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We used to have a video where you programmed the time etc. on the remote and then pressed a button and it sent it to the machine and included weekly/daily scheduled recordings etc. I'm sure it was an Amstrad, but they stopped making them when VideoPlus came on the scene
As with most Amstrad products, it was designed to make technology accessible to the masses at an affordable price. If I remember correctly, at the same time, my Dad had to press small buttons on the front of his VCR to program it. It was very funny watching him try and do it and it always took him a while. Whilst it was easier to use than many of the other VCRs of the time, it was cheaply made and didn't last too long. |
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When I was at school we used to laugh our heads off at Amstrad stereos!!
Cheap music centers sold in Woolies! My friend made a great point the other day. He said if SAS was so good he would be up with Bill Gates nowdays. SAS was at the pinnicle of computing but obviously fell way, way short! A sucessful business?? Hmmmm?! |
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Didn't Amstrad buy out the promising british company called Sinclair Research and then close them down virtually straight away?
Anyone have a Spectrum? |
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k amstrad is an incredibly successful business. was it 500k emailer phones they sold?
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viglen PCs were okay and for a few years were better value than dells. Unfortunetly (for viglen) dell now sells cheaper.
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Success is a relative term. They've made a lot of money and shifted a lot of units; but compared to the big players - Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP etc - Amstrad has fallen short.
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The point with Amstrad is that at one point it held 25% of Europe's PC market, yet now employs 90-odd people in Essex; it once had a market value of over a billion, but it now less than half of that; it was once an (almost, some may say) respected brand, but it now a laughing stock within the industry.
There was a brilliant article in one of the broadsheets (Indy or the FT, I think) last year that compared Amstrad to Dell and it went a long way to illustrated how limited Sugar is as a CEO. He has a lot of bluster and energy, but wasn't able to turn a pan-continental company multinational 'cos he was always chasing the fast buck rather than sitting down, taking advice & thinking long-term. He'll probable say that because he's not a schmoozer - whatever that means - but it's the difference between him and Bill Gates, and I know who I'd rather be. |
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The point with Amstrad is that at one point it held 25% of Europe's PC market, yet now employs 90-odd people in Essex; it once had a market value of over a billion, but it now less than half of that; it was once an (almost, some may say) respected brand, but it now a laughing stock within the industry.
There was a brilliant article in one of the broadsheets (Indy or the FT, I think) last year that compared Amstrad to Dell and it went a long way to illustrated how limited Sugar is as a CEO. He has a lot of bluster and energy, but wasn't able to turn a pan-continental company multinational 'cos he was always chasing the fast buck rather than sitting down, taking advice & thinking long-term. He'll probable say that because he's not a schmoozer - whatever that means - but it's the difference between him and Bill Gates, and I know who I'd rather be. i know who id rather be as well and im sure it is the same as yours. but i also know who i would rather be out of me and suggs. i work for a printers in manchester 8 hrs a day, he works for his own multi million pound company... no contest really |
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Isn't Amstrad crap?
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Didn't Amstrad buy out the promising british company called Sinclair Research and then close them down virtually straight away?
Anyone have a Spectrum? |
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Didn't Amstrad buy out the promising british company called Sinclair Research and then close them down virtually straight away?
Anyone have a Spectrum? I bought an Amstrad laptop in 1992, a 386 processor, it came with 2 MB memory which I upgraded to 4, DOS 3, I u/g to 6.1 and then Windows 3.1. It still works, my mother uses it to play Free cell and I play minesweeper on it when I visit. The dot matrix printer needs 32 kb of memory I think, but ribbons are the problem. It still looks good and was a superb m/c, I wrote 3 dissertations on it. |
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Quality product from Amstrad - http://www.amstrad.com/hk/licensed_products/hk218.html
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I had their satellite dish and the double decker video recorder. |
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SAS made a deal it did not involve the company, merely its name and products for £5 million. The previous year the company was worth over £100 million but didn't do its research correctly with the Sincliar C5. SAS sold a new spectrum the ZX Spectrum 128k+3, didn't sell so pulled out of the gaming market. The company still exists today, continuing to market Sir Clive Sinclair's newest inventions. http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk
Perhaps it shows that maybe SAS's business decisions haven't always better than the candidates! |
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SAS made a deal it did not involve the company, merely its name and products for £5 million. The previous year the company was worth over £100 million but didn't do its research correctly with the Sincliar C5. SAS sold a new spectrum the ZX Spectrum 128k+3, didn't sell so pulled out of the gaming market. The company still exists today, continuing to market Sir Clive Sinclair's newest inventions. http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk
In addition, it was more than just the C5 that took Sinclair down. Investment in wafer memory and the R+D costs of the Sinclair QL (which was horifically delayed) cost the company dear. The C5 on it's own wasn't enough to sink it. Sinclair also had a number of other expensive R+D products in the pipework including a Super Spectrum. So the +2 and +3 were a success and it was not just the C5 that sunk Sinclair. Perhaps you should do some research before passing off inaccurcies as facts? |
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Used to have a 6128 when I was a kid, think it's still in the loft somehwere!
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Sir Alan is a member here lol.
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Does anybody know if you can actually buy those emailer phones from retailers such as comet, dixons etc beacause i only ever see them for sale on ebay
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