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    The Amstrad PC1512 was Amstrad's mostly IBM PC-compatible computer system, launched in 1986, and advertised with prices from £399 plus VAT. The system...
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    disks that many Amstrad machines used. In 1986 Amstrad entered the IBM PC-compatible arena with the PC1512 system. In standard Amstrad livery and priced...
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    credibility as computer supplier, Amstrad launched IBM-compatible PCs, once again focussing on low prices, with its PC1512 surpassing the IBM PC on performance...
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  • Locomotive Software (category Amstrad CPC)
    Digital Research's GEM graphical user interface, as supplied with the Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640 range of PC clones. The company also developed the LocoScript...
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  • The Amstrad PC2286 was launched 1989. The 2000 series launched as a professional follow on to the PC1512/1640. The 2000 series consisted of three models:...
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  • single-sided 315 KB FAT12 format. DOS Plus DISK.CMD versions for the Amstrad PC1512, the T.R.A.N. Jasmin Turbo and the BBC Master 512 support variants of...
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    Locomotive BASIC (category Amstrad CPC)
    Software on the Amstrad CPC (where it was built-in on ROM) and the later Locomotive BASIC-2 as a GEM application on the Amstrad PC1512 and 1640. It was...
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    Amstrad PCW and Schneider Joyce, followed by the Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640. In 1987 the association with Amstrad ended, and the company produced PC compatible...
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  • PC-3 in November 1987. Responding to the introduction of the low-cost Amstrad PC1512 in the UK, price points for the initial PC model were given as around...
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    was competing in the operating system market some computers, like the Amstrad PC1512, were sold with floppy disks for two operating systems (only one of...
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