27 پاسخ به “رایانه شخصی که اروپا را ترک کرد – Amstrads PC1512 و 1640 | تاریخچه رایانه”

1. What are your views on the Amstrad PC1512? Did you have one? Did it launch in your region under a different name and if so how was it received? I'd love to hear your memories. Thank you for watching and thanks to MrLurch for sharing his experiences of using the DB9 joystick port and PixelVixen for her feedback in helping create this video. Neil – RMC

2. i'm actually surprised to learn that amstrad had problems with seagate hds. i've only had one die on me over the years, lots of western digitals have died on me, but seagates have been super reliable for me. heck, i once hooked up a seagate hd that was about 20 years old and it worked perfectly!

3. If they want pink polka dots , Then I'll add f***ing pink polka dots.

4. Noone gets fired for choosing IBM, but everyone gets fired for choosing Seagate Barracudas.

5. Couple notes: My first PC was a 486dx/33mhz which I put Linux on (early days, in the 90s). The Linux kernel back then had a soundcard emulator that output through the PC speaker! Yes you could hear DOOM through PC speaker!

   Also in the early days of Linux, a popular text editor for newbies who didnt know vi was "joe", which was a Wordstar clone. 🙂

6. I knew we were in trouble when the black gloves came out. Thanks so much bro!

7. Damn, Doris was still using an 8086 and 5.25's in 1998-99??? holy cow

8. the "Amstrad Mode" reminds me of the "tandy graphics array" radio shack used in their pc/pc jr. compatibles

9. I remember back in 1990 a neighbour had one of the 512kb versions upgraded with a 20MB harddrive and full 640kb ram. At the time I had a Intel 80286-12Mhz computer with a whopping 12MB of ram. Those where the days.. 🙂

10. This is basically the Tandy of Europe. IBM was always way overpriced. Tandy (in the USA) and from this video, Amstrad, took advantage of this and made quality units for less.

11. I've been to the nuclear Bunker in Essex today, amazed to see one of these being used in the computer room mixed in with loads of military computers, also a few commodores, like newer pets, not seen them before

12. My first job in the games industry was QA at Elite Systems. I had a 1512 for a while, before being upgraded to 1640. I was always jealous of my boss who had an Amstrad PC 2386 with VGA, which meant he could play Wolfenstein in colour!

13. I remember this exact model at my mom's work. That's where I first time saw fighting chess. I was blown away, couldn't even figure out what exactly I just saw, wait, what? Chess walk animated and actually eat each other? I was 13 maybe. I grew up in USSR all the PC stuff was really delayed and prob that PC came from some recycle or dump in Netherlands or something.

14. Great work as usual. And the music…

15. Loved my 1640 with the EGA monitor that I accidently got for the price of the MD monitor.

    Many nights were spent on it, playing LSL and programming Pascal for school.
    Also replaced the CPU with a NEC V20 and soldered a reset button on it.

16. Years ago I had an Amstrad PC5286. It was obsolete by then, I had rebuilt it from parts from an Amstrad 386 machine and used it in my last years of high school. I remember I upgraded it from 1mb to 4mb of RAM, and installed an 80mb Hard disk. The thing was just about bullet-proof.

17. Still have my amstrad 😀 !

18. I studied in University of Hull when the 1512 came out, so I bought the cheapest one, one floppy and mono screen. Some modifications where done: first changing the processor to a NEC V30 (20% speedup) and a 20GB harddisk on a card. Next I changed the diskcontroller from MFM to RLL (upping the storage to 32GB). Then I maxed the ram to 640KB. Next I changed the processor crystal from a 24MHz to a 27MHz (a common RC crystal, easy to get) that gave me 9 MHz processor clock. Next step was a 34MHz RC crystal (which gave a 11.3MHz processor clock). The problem was that the floppy controller ran straight off the processor clock, and made standard floppies unreadable. A little tinkering with the clock circuit made the the CPU clock slow down when the floppydrive was used (by selecting the realtime clock crystal (?)). I was Amstrad Norways goto man for people that asked hard questions at this point.
    Having taken the machine to its limits I sold it to get a 486 machine… (I calculated that I actually made about £100 compared to my expenses)

19. Can someone help me, is the mouse necessary for using the computer?

20. Started my career by fitting HDD's to these units & WD Filecards . Also spent time replacing IC108 to resolve the printer outputting random characters. Happy days …

21. I has a1512 with a 20mg hard drive running gem-desk with a colour monitor

22. When I was at college back in 1988 we had rooms of 1640's – I was programming with PASCAL at the time using TurboPASCAL and wrote my essays in Wordstar – just love hearing the disk drive noise again.

23. My father bought a PC1512 HD20 in France in 1987. He installed a Kertel 1200 bauds modem for the Minitel access. It was great to see Minitel pages in color, while all my friends got the standard B&W minitel terminal. I also remember that it was faster than our previous IBM 5150, for games and even to display a simple « dir » dos command.

24. I had the 1640, I remember that the 10mb hard drive came with bad sectors, which was the thing then as they hadn't perfected HD at that time.
    Mine had a CGA monitory but if I included the Display.sys in the Autoexec.bat it would run in EGA mode but it was slower.
    I was 16 when I got this and I put the reason why I am now in IT due to this PC, lots of trials and errors etc.
    One app I liked was GEM software is was like Windows at the time, I also ran Windows 2 but wen't back to GEM, @ 14.43 I remember the sound of the PC booting up, wow, brings back memories.
    My Parent's did get me the 3.5 720K Floppy drive for it as well, came it really useful later on.
    I kept this pc for years all the way through my college and university years, running A+ for Word and Excel type programs.. wish I had kept it. My next PC was a TINY P75

25. Thanks for making a video about this computer. I was always kind of curious about this odd-looking machine.

    Sad thing is that no PC was cutting edge in the 80s or early 90s. The Amiga 1000 or 500 were low cost computers they have better features in every way. Too bad the company was completely stupid.

    Even when Windows 3.0 came out, is performance on a 386 – 25mhz what's comprable to a 7mhz Amiga from 1986..

    Not until Windows 95 and really XP did Microsoft have a operating system that had multitasking usability like a 1990 Amiga 3000.

    Oh well, at least we have Linux

26. Wanted a 1640 back in these days but my dealer could not deliver. So i kept stuck with my C64 and later went on to Acorn RISC OS than MS-DOS/Windows. I had luck that days…

27. As a kid, I wanted to learn Locomotive BASIC 2. But no training was available.

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