Amstrad CPC 664 | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1985
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Zilog Z80, 4 MHz
- RAM: 64 KB
- FDD: –
- HDD: –
- Audio: Three channels, one noise channel, seven octaves
- Connectors/Ports: joystick, printer, floppy disk, bus, monitor, cassette, sound output
- Case: Keyboard type
- Monitor: Color
- OS: CP/M or AMSDOS
The Amstrad CPC 664 has a Zilog Z80A processor at 4 MHz and memory of 64kB. It ran with the operating system of the CP/M or AMSDOS version.
Amstrad was founded back in 1968 by Alan Sugar. Originally the name of the company was AMS Trading, deriving from acronyms Alan Michael Sugar Trading Limited Company. The corporation was involved in various divisions. Among them were the television, car stereo cassettes, amplifiers and tuners. Later on Amstrad focused on personal computers – portable ones as well- telecommunications and satellite systems.
During the 1980s expanding business, Amstrad entered the computer manufacturing market. The principal aim was to present competition to rivals of that time, Commodore and Sinclair. It gradually introduced to consumers the CPC range and later to PCW, PPC ones. Primarily, they were word processors equipped with integrated printers, while personal computers followed along. During the 1990s the company aimed more on computer portability, while trying in the meantime enter the video game console division as well.
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