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Ace wrote:


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.

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Sorry Ace, but I have to be pedantic here... any "hi-fi" system that isn't made up of seperates isn't a "hi-fi" system!

A basic Hi-Fi system is made up of either a turntable or a CD player, plugged into an amplifier. Speakers are then wired to the amp. At any time, extra components may be added, or individual components changed without having to change everything.

What if you wanted a better amp on your Amstrad? Or a double cassette deck to replace the single cassette deck? You had to ditch the whole thing and start from scratch.

It may have been cheap. It may have played music. But it wasn't HI-FI!!

AMSTRAD is more or less a thing of the past, as the majority of his material wealth is through his property portflio, AMSPROP. Amstrad were HUUGE in the eighties, as you know, pioneering the Word Processor and having a host of successful 8bit computers, resulting in the firm having a value of ?1bn in 1989......... the stubborn bugger didn't sell up.

Enter IBM and microsoft who have dictated the home computer scene to the present........ although Sugardaddy has a big contract with Viglen, manufacturing PC 'towers' and systems.

The only products of note that AMSTRAD have made of late is the flawed 'e-M@iler' phone (you've probably seen them in the majority of reception areas in the UK) and a lucrative line in set-top boxes.

Nonetheless, as contrived as it is, THE APPRENTICE rocks!!!!! The standard by which reality TV should be set.

I got a Thomson sky + box, If he set me up with an amstrad I would have asked him to leave.

I was going to click on the jobs section on the website.but hes still got those idiots to get rid off first before talking on another lol
I still got my CPC464 and it still works.there was a magazine in the 80'c called Amstrad Action which went with the computers.I still got some of them too.

What is an EXCELLENT series, you might like to know that the series was filmed in batches, so no contestant actually 'left' their employ. All filmed during their holidays.
If you doubt it, ask yerself these questions........

1) Would Sir Alan actually put 14 weeks aside in a one-er for this?

2)The contestants are seen with hand luggage or a small suitcase.....not exactly enough stuff for a 14 week stint

3)Would YOU actually quit a lucrative ?25k - 35k per year job if you honestly believed you might not win the series?

Still, it is EXCELLENT viewing, but the 2 arse licking aides he has wind me up....ANYTHING Sir Alan says, they whole-heartedly agree with. They remind me of Smithers to Mr Burns in The Simpsons

i remember them, personally i thought the commodore 64 was a better machine it definately had more games available than the amstrad
i also remember that amstrad bought-out sinclair the makers of the spectrum and totally re-modified the machine with built in cassette/disk player

I'll second that.
I used to work repairing this type of equipment. Rarely was anything made by Amstrad worth fixing, and you could hardly get spares for them even if it was.
The Video Recorders Amstrad churned out were absolute cheap and nasty boxes of plastic cogs. Don't know which far eastern factory actually made them but the same units were available with all sorts of names on them like Saisho, Goodmans, Matsui, Hinari, Osaki, Akura, Orion, and others that are lost in the back of my mind.

Looking back in my old "Book of common faults 1997" I find the Amstrad section takes up the same amount of pages as most other quality manufacturers even though Amstrad released less than half the number of different models the other manufacturers did.

Thank you Brerbear, but as Bob is a fellow Chelsea fan, I can let it go instead of going round and slashing his tyres !wink!

It may have been a good concept, but the quality of it was a shambles.
It was exactly that - 2 of the worst and cheapest video recorders available screwed into the same box and connected internally. They didn't even have Hi-Fi sound which is a must-have for anyone serious about making quality duplications.
Far better copies could have been achieved by using 2 seperate video recorders from a quality manufacturer.