Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Computer Concepts had looked at the Amstrad PCW8256 word processor and wondered to itself whether there was a market for something like that but capable of doing proper graphics. CC wrote a word processor for the Beeb called Wordwise that quickly...
[July 28, 2006, 18:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Expect pronouncements from the man that this is the greatest Amstrad gizmo since the PCW word processor. The rumours have coalesced into facts: Amstrad is launching a new Spectrum. Amstrad has also been busy registering Web sites with names like...
[December 13, 2001, 14:07]
BSkyB To Buy Amstrad For £125m
News The name Amstrad still resonates within the history of the UK computer industry — the company made its own CPC home PCs, followed by the PCW range of word processor PCs and its own range of DOS/Windows machines, which took off successfully from 1986.
[July 31, 2007, 13:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Amstrad knew how to get it right with its best-selling PCW8256 word processor - built out of what anyone else would call obsolete components but which Sugar saw as extremely cost-effective and efficient.
[May 12, 2006, 18:00]
