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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: anyone heard of "Amstrad" pc clone?
Keywords: amstrad, pc clone
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Date: 6 Dec 88 20:49:06 GMT
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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.