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	* [https://youtu.be/EeqRpnv2_HM "Everything we did, we did it immediately" - Roland Perry interview] by [[The Centre for Computing History]]		* [https://youtu.be/EeqRpnv2_HM "Everything we did, we did it immediately" - Roland Perry interview] by [[The Centre for Computing History]]
−	* [https://youtu.be/MTsCiZ3ZBD4 El CREADOR del AMSTRAD CPC nos cuenta TODO sobre su DESARROLLO \| Entrevista a ROLAND PERRY] by [[Las Cosas Retro]]

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	This article is not the result of searches through '''Amstrad’s''' archives. Nor is it even a competent hack-job rephrasing David Thomas’s biography of [[Alan M. Sugar\|Alan Sugar]] (quite a fun book, and worth digging out). It’s just how I remember it from years of reading [[Popular Computing Weekly]], [[New Computer Express]] and the like. So don’t quote me on any of it!		This article is not the result of searches through '''Amstrad’s''' archives. Nor is it even a competent hack-job rephrasing David Thomas’s biography of [[Alan M. Sugar\|Alan Sugar]] (quite a fun book, and worth digging out). It’s just how I remember it from years of reading [[Popular Computing Weekly]], [[New Computer Express]] and the like. So don’t quote me on any of it!
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-* [https://youtu.be/EeqRpnv2_HM "Everything we did, we did it immediately" - Roland Perry interview]
+* [https://youtu.be/EeqRpnv2_HM "Everything we did, we did it immediately" - Roland Perry interview] by [[The Centre for Computing History]]
 [[Category:CPC related companies| ]]
 [[Category:CPC History| ]][[Category:Amstrad Products| ]][[Category:UK companies| ]]

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 This article is not the result of searches through '''Amstrad’s''' archives. Nor is it even a competent hack-job rephrasing David Thomas’s biography of [[Alan M. Sugar|Alan Sugar]] (quite a fun book, and worth digging out). It’s just how I remember it from years of reading [[Popular Computing Weekly]], [[New Computer Express]] and the like. So don’t quote me on any of it!
 [[Category:CPC related companies| ]]
 [[Category:CPC History| ]][[Category:Amstrad Products| ]][[Category:UK companies| ]]

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 == A very partial history of Amstrad ==
-(from WACCI issue 136, written by [[User:ChaRleyTroniC|ChaRleyTroniC]])
+(from [[WACCI]] issue 136, written by [[User:ChaRleyTroniC|ChaRleyTroniC]])
 In the beginning was the word. And the word was '''Amstrad'''. And the word was a rather corny conflation of AMS (Alan Michael Sugar) and Trading. And when [[Adam Shade]] came to name his [[PD libraries|PD library]], he called it [[Dartsma]], possibly because he thought it’d be amusing to reverse such a well-known name, but more probably because he just couldn’t spell it.

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	[[Category:CPC related companies\| ]]		[[Category:CPC related companies\| ]]
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 [[Image:Amstrad.png]]
 [http://www.amstrad.com Amstrad PLC] was founded by Sir [[Alan M. Sugar]] in 1968.
-After meeting with quite some success in selling cheap audio equipment (namely, the first all-in-one stereo systems we all use today), Amstrad (which stands for '''A'''lan '''M''' '''S'''ugar '''TRAD'''ing) skyrocketed to the top of British computer manufacturers when it launched the CPC [[464]] in 1985. Further releases in the CPC series, as well as the [[PCW]] series brough in tremendous amounts of cash and lots of fame for its founder and CEO. The [[Amstrad PC]] series, although initially another big success, were to be its ultimate demise since Amstrad did not have the strong selling points needed in a clone-infested market.
+After meeting with quite some success in selling cheap audio equipment (namely, the first all-in-one stereo systems we all use today), Amstrad (which stands for '''A'''lan '''M''' '''S'''ugar '''TRAD'''ing) skyrocketed to the top of British computer manufacturers when it launched the CPC [[464]] in 1984. Further releases in the CPC series, as well as the [[PCW]] series brough in tremendous amounts of cash and lots of fame for its founder and CEO. The [[Amstrad PC]] series, although initially another big success, were to be its ultimate demise since Amstrad did not have the strong selling points needed in a clone-infested market.
 Nowadays Amstrad is selling, with very modest success, the Em@iler telephones, satelite equipment and various other things - some of which are just own-branded OEM electronics.

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 This article is not the result of searches through Amstrad’s archives. Nor is it even a competent hack-job rephrasing David Thomas’s biography of Alan Sugar (quite a fun book, and worth digging out). It’s just how I remember it from years of reading [[Popular Computing Weekly]], [[New Computer Express]] and the like. So don’t quote me on any of it!