Amstrad jumped into the home computer market in 1984, just in time to shake things up with its unique all-in-one concept for the home market.
Note: The While earlier computers like the Commodore PET and the Apple Macintosh were also had pioneered the all-in-one designsdesign, and both they were launched before the Amstrad CPC, but these computers were more primarily aimed at businesses and education and businesses.
It even happened after the [[MSX]] Standard of 1983 which was thought at the time to be the end of the "cowboy" era of disparate and incompatible 8bit computers.