Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!ilan343 From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: anyone heard of "Amstrad" pc clone? Keywords: amstrad, pc clone Message-ID: <17917@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 6 Dec 88 20:49:06 GMT References: <401500bd.14dc3@gogol> <23715@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12 In article <23715@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes: > >I saw an Amstrad machine at a large department store in LA (May's?). >It had an 8086 and was around $999. For that price, I'd rather have an >AT clone. > PC Computing has a review of the "shopping mall" PC's. It includes the AMSTRAD 1512 (8086/8Mhz, 512K, 2 360K floppies). I quote: "...obviously owes much of its design inspiration to the people that gave us the $4 hair drier". The thing is all plastic with its innards wrapped in tin to shield RF signals.