pete_w Posted December 24, 2021 Report Share Posted December 24, 2021 (edited) I have recently picked up an old Amstrad 1512 PC to restore. These were the first ever PCs under £500 that came out in 1986 These had an 8086 cpu, 512kb RAM and come with 2x 360k 5 1.4 floppy drives, one of which i will replace with a Gotek I plan to upgrade the ram to 640k, install an XT IDE Compact Flash card and add a network and sound card Edited December 24, 2021 by pete_w 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dad Posted December 24, 2021 Report Share Posted December 24, 2021 I had one and loved it! Cost me £40 and a few days later had to get it in for repair due to a 'parity' error, but after that it worked perfectly A bit later I upgraded to the 1640 with a 20MD (yes 20MB) hard drive and a whopping 8 colours. I also installed my first 8 bit sound card and couldn't believe how good it was! HAPPY DAYS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted December 24, 2021 Report Share Posted December 24, 2021 I think the first amstrad PC I recall is the one with the built in Mega Drive. A company that I worked for actually had them for business... ...was really odd to think of that combination when you look back in time - business PC and Megadrive hybrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted December 24, 2021 Report Share Posted December 24, 2021 This was the advert... ...look at the specds for the Mega Plus ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_w Posted December 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2021 19 hours ago, dad said: I had one and loved it! Cost me £40 and a few days later had to get it in for repair due to a 'parity' error, but after that it worked perfectly A bit later I upgraded to the 1640 with a 20MD (yes 20MB) hard drive and a whopping 8 colours. I also installed my first 8 bit sound card and couldn't believe how good it was! HAPPY DAYS! Me too, i had one back in around 1992 or so, had a 20 mb hardcard its previous owner had fitted, which was slow but good enough, used that until i got a 486 around 1995 or so. Was slow but reliable. paid around £30 for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dad Posted December 25, 2021 Report Share Posted December 25, 2021 20 minutes ago, pete_w said: Me too, i had one back in around 1992 or so, had a 20 mb hardcard its previous owner had fitted, which was slow but good enough, used that until i got a 486 around 1995 or so. Was slow but reliable. paid around £30 for it After my 1640 I got an Elonex 386sx with 2mb of ram. I upgraded it to 4mb and the 1mb chips cost me £22 each lol. Been building PC’s ever since until a few years ago when I just gave up after purchasing my gaming laptop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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