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Lord Sugar remembered how his Amstrad computer company competed with Steve Jobs in the 1980s
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Yep, have to have a giggle at that one. In saying that I did go from an Apple IIe to an Amstrad with CPM then some other DOS Amstrad effort, got me on the road.Originally posted by Paddy View PostBBC News
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Amstrad 8256 (or 8512) and Amstrad PC1512 (or PC1640) by any chance?Originally posted by Cliphead View PostComment
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8512 and 1640. I added a 10Mb hard drive to the 1640 which mounted internally in a slot which ran parallel to the backplane if that makes sense.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostComment
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Eventually Jobs conceded defeat, and Apple abandoned the car stereo market for goodOriginally posted by Paddy View Post
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To be fair, in the 80's I saw a lot more amstrads than ApplesOriginally posted by Paddy View PostBBC News
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Frig. that brings back memories. The engineering department had one of those and I played around with it for a couple of hours. I think it loaded the OS from a CD(?) and the programming languages was objective-C I think.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostFrom the bookshelf, a rather dogeared copy of Byte from November 1988, featuring the NeXT cube: Steve Jobs' new "machine for the '90s" (linked to full-size 17MB scan):
I remember reading that review in a freezing cold waiting room at Birmingham New Street in the early hours of a Sunday morning as my girlfriend kipped on the floor. We'd been to Nottingham for the day. After a rather long evening in the Salutation we both fell asleep on the last train home and ended up, much against our wishes, in Brum
Of course the NextStep OS from that machine lives on as Cocoa in the current OS X and iOS, as evidenced by the number of classes whose name begins NS
McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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Obj-C is correct; the "optical disk" was actually a magneto-optical device which was the Next Big Thing but never became cheap enough. According to the review, it could store 256MB on a disk cartridge costing $50, so it was unlikely to survive into the era of cheap CD-RsOriginally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
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Originally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyComment
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Ah yes, Alan "computers wouldn't have happened in this country without me" Sugar.Originally posted by Paddy View PostBBC News
Lord Sugar remembered how his Amstrad computer company competed with Steve Jobs in the 1980s
"A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester FreamonComment
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