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Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo The star of the BBC show The Apprentice was chosen for the post thanks to the entrepreneurial instincts that saw him turn electronics manufacturer Amstrad into a household name in the home PC market in the 1980s. [10 Jun 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo Lin Jones, project manager at The National Museum of Computing, said the British boom in personal computing during the 1980s, which gave rise to the BBC, Spectrum and Amstrad, had inspired a generation of programmers. [07 May 2009]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo This is the Amstrad 'Colour Personal Computer' that Sir Alan Sugar launched in 1984 to rival the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. Here's a driver giving the tech a spin. To see more click here. Photo credit: Ministry of... [02 Oct 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo Continuing with the cheap theme, the Amstrad 'Colour Personal Computer' was launched by Sir Alan Sugar in 1984 as a rival to the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64. The National Museum of Computing's Chilvers said:... [03 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up The last time the Round-Up was in a school IT lesson all the computers had Amstrad on the front and Prestel was everyone's idea of a great night in. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away... [04 Jul 2008]
Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News Amstrad or Spectrum? Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? silicon.com readers have posted a flurry of comments around a poll we ran recently asking the question, what was your first home computer? Not only was it a very... [30 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment That meant beating other classics such as the Apple II, BBC Micro, my own personal favourite the Amstrad CPC464, and others including the Commodore 64 and Dragon 32. Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly,... [22 Apr 2008]
ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics
News Another classic, the IBM PC got 10 per cent of the vote, and was joined by the Amstrad CPC 464 (eight per cent) and Apple II (seven per cent) in the popularity stakes. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum has been crowned the most... [18 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.06.07
Round-Up Perhaps Sugar and the Beeb are aware that winning a job at Amstrad isn't everybody's idea of winning. Given the name of the show - The Apprentice - perhaps the BBC and Sugar have grown fearful of the winner turning their... [15 Jun 2007]
Apprentice winner takes on PC recycling
News The winner of Sir Alan Sugar's The Apprentice business talent TV show will be given the responsibility of setting up a PC recycling business for Amstrad. Michelle Dewberry, the 26-year-old telecoms consultant from Hull,... [11 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.05.04
Round-Up And finally, Amstrad chairman Alan Sugar is to take on the role made famous by Donald Trump when US reality show 'The Apprentice' comes to UK screens (see here). Sugar rose to fame with the launch of the affordable,... [21 May 2004]
Sir Alan Sugar to top the bill on reality TV
News Sir Alan first became famous with the launch of his affordable Amstrad computer, which aimed to make PCs available to the mass market. Amstrad later came adrift when it tried to make IBM-compatible... [19 May 2004]
Will you soon be sending texts from your landline phone?
News One notable device that does is Amstrad's converged, fixed line em@iler device. Fixed line telcos have been urged to exploit the demand for SMS services by encouraging the use of text messages on traditional wireline... [05 Mar 2003]
British men wear the trousers in public, stick a dress on in private
News The survey, which was carried out by Amstrad on a sample of 1,000 men, revealed the most popular current ringtones downloaded by men for their mobile phones include Mission Impossible, Eminem's Cleaning Out My Closet,... [15 Nov 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: ZX Spectrum users get dewy eyed
Comment Shortly after Amstrad acquired the Sinclair brand in 1986 until 1990 I had the pleasure of being the customer support consultant for the range. It seems quite a few of you have decided to join him. Here are just a few of... [14 Jan 2002]
