Sir Alan Sugar and AMSTRAD

[Ace]

We've had a chat on a previous thread about the EXCELLENT The Apprentice show. I like Sir Alan as he tells it like it is, BUT............
Considering his wealth and standing in Business and Commerce, I have not seen ANY Amstrad products for a few years.
I know he withdrew them from Dixons, but Argos always carried some of his products........not anymore.
So where does his incoming revenue come from now? Is Amstrad sold on-line to cut overheads?
In 1982, I saved wages for weeks to get my first Hi-fi which was a 3 in 1 Amstrad at ?199.99. It was fucking brilliant as a first hi-fi and blew my dads JVC out of the water....but then again, the old bastard never went above 3 on the volume.....my never went below 7

[mart]

Mart

[Arginald Valleywater]

Please, never use Amstrad and Hifi in the same sentence. I recall Amstrad was bargain basement junk, to put it mildly. Still shit sells, look at McDonalds or Budwesier beer.

[Bob Singleton]

It's a sad indictment of our modern society that we hold up as role models those who make millions from selling us crap.

[random hero]

my first computer was a color screen amstrad 464.....was cool but all my mates had spectrum 48s.....i didnt like the rubber keys

[Jonboy]

Hello Ace, think you will also find Amstrad own Viglen Computers , good products with lots of sales into the Education/Civil Service Market.I remember when Anstrad did the double VHS Recorder great for copying vids , shame no one does one for DVDs

[KJ]

Samsung have made such a machine.

[Ace]

Arginald Valleywater wrote:

> Please, never use Amstrad and Hifi in the same sentence.

It WAS my first proper hi-fi. I remember how the 'seperates' were designed to look like that, but it was a single unit with deep grooves 'seperating' the cassette/Tuner/amp.
The speakers were great though.
I now have Techniques and my CD player alone cost more than the Amstrad hi-fi.
Since my first post on this, I DID see an Amstrad FAX machine at the charity shop going for a 'reasonable' ?4.00

[NOBBY]

He's supplying SKY T.V. with their SKY+ Receiver's which are a sack of shit compared to the Pace version....

[Peter]

Made me laugh out loud on the first show of the apprentice (the fruit and veg one) when the girls were explaining the bought the stock at the end of the day, stuff no-one else would buy, and Sugar siad he didn't want anyone in his company selling second rate rubbish! Ithought that was exactly his business model.