So many errors and false statements in this piece.
1) The CPC sold over three million units, not two million
2) Locomotive BASIC was not written in the 60s at Dartmouth College, it was written in the early 80s by Locomotive Software (clue is in the copyright notice on bootup).
3) The CPC464 did not include the so-called "unique software; a new Amstrad owned operating system called ‘AMSDOS’" AMSDOS = Amstrad Disk Operating System, a ROM extension that was included in the 664 and 6128 (the ones that shipped with disk drives). For the 464, AMSDOS came on a ROM in the disk drive controller IF you bought the external disk drive add-on.
4) You picked one of the few colour examples in the CPC palette that was a bit loud. Most of the 27 colour palette was quite tame, more so than the Speccy and far less brown than the C64.
5) The Amstrad GX4000 was not a Sega Master System clone, it was a CPC464 in console form
6) Amstrad was acquired by Sky in 2007, the satellite receiver business was not sold off in the 90s.
7) The original Amstrad Emailer had a mono display, the colour screen came much later with the E3.
So many errors and false statements in this piece.
1) The CPC sold over three million units, not two million
2) Locomotive BASIC was not written in the 60s at Dartmouth College, it was written in the early 80s by Locomotive Software (clue is in the copyright notice on bootup).
3) The CPC464 did not include the so-called "unique software; a new Amstrad owned operating system called ‘AMSDOS’" AMSDOS = Amstrad Disk Operating System, a ROM extension that was included in the 664 and 6128 (the ones that shipped with disk drives). For the 464, AMSDOS came on a ROM in the disk drive controller IF you bought the external disk drive add-on.
4) You picked one of the few colour examples in the CPC palette that was a bit loud. Most of the 27 colour palette was quite tame, more so than the Speccy and far less brown than the C64.
5) The Amstrad GX4000 was not a Sega Master System clone, it was a CPC464 in console form
6) Amstrad was acquired by Sky in 2007, the satellite receiver business was not sold off in the 90s.
7) The original Amstrad Emailer had a mono display, the colour screen came much later with the E3.
Really poor!
Great piece Chris - a friend of mine had the emailer in her house and I always remember thinking "wow what a weird piece of kit".
A mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viglen is probably deserved: they were bought by Amstrad in 1994 and sold to Westcoast/XMA in 2014.
I think the UK’s first smart phone was the ICL Open Per Desk (OPD) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk which pre-dates the Amstrad product by 16 years.