Amstrad Advert - August 1986
From Practical Computing
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 successful in the UK market, and were often credited with being the machine that finally "got the technophobes in to computers".
An advert for the PCW 8256 on a similar theme, with a skip full of junked computer equipment. From Personal Computer World, October 1986
By the time they were discontinued in 1998, eight million PCWs had been sold, with 700,000 shifting in the UK in the first two years alone[1], making it the best-selling UK micro ever until the Raspberry Pi beat it in early 2016[2].
The original 8256 retailed for only £399 - about £1,430 in 2024 - which was about a quarter the price of an IBM PC at the time.
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