Amstrad adverts

Amstrad's new CPC 464 comes with plenty of free plugs

Harking back to the early all-in-one computers of the late 1970s - not least the very first, 1977's Commodore's PET with its built-in cassette player - comes Alan Michael Sugar Tr...

The home computer that means business - Amstrad CPC664

When interviewed about the upcoming Atari ST, former Commodore founder and all-round legend Jack Tramiel said "Home computer? I never heard of it - I make personal computers". I...

It does accounts, projections, wordprocessing and 180mph

Only months after Amstrad had released the CPC 664, it was back with an entry in the battle-du-jour which by late summer of 1985 was all about 128K micros. Whilst not really off...

Get even more attached to your Amstrad

Many computer companies of the time seemed to be happy to rely on third parties to produce peripherals for their machines, particularly Acorn which was famous for its long timesca...

More than a Word Processor for less than a typewriter

Retailing for only £399 - about £1,600 in 2025 and about a quarter the price of an IBM PC at the time, the P‍CW 8256 and its follow ups were highly significant and transformative ...

Amstrad 6128: While other computers are still under starters orders, you're off and running

The Amstrad CPC 6128 (although the CPC part seems to have been dropped) was first launched in the US in June 1985, before appearing in the UK in August the same year. It had onl...

If you want to upgrade your office, here's a tip

It's another advert for Amstrad's P‍CW 8256, featuring a rubbish-tip metaphor that occured in a few of the adverts run around this time. The P‍CW 8256 and 8512 were hugely succes...

Compatible with you know who, priced as only we know how

At £449 (£1,640 in 2025) Amstrad wasn't wrong, although that was for the machine which only had a single floppy. The more useful version with a 10MB hard disc drive retailed at ...

How much computer can you buy for £450?

It's another advert for Amstrad's PC 1512, this time featuring a nice bit of analogue Photoshopping showing competitors' micros chopped up to represent how much you could get for ...

We asked our designers for a portable PC. They got completely carried away.

Launched at Comdex Fall '87 in Las Vegas and at the UK's Which Computer? Show, the PPC range of not-quite-laptops was Amstrad's entry into the portable market. It was fully IBM c...

Can your computer keep pace with the Amstrad PC2286?

Several years after Amstrad had battered through the UK home and small-business microcomputer industry with its range of keenly-priced machines, it was still going, here offering ...

Amstrad's new baby is even smaller than most miniature PCs

It's five years since Amstrad purchased Sinclair and moved into the computer business, going on to sell a range of highly-succesful home micros, word processors and, later on, bus...