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From: agjenkin@kcl-cs.UUCP (Alun Jenkins)
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Subject: Re: INFO NEEDED: "Amstrad" (sp?) Computer
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 16:43:18 EST
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As a point of interest, A hard disk is now (6-8 weeks available for the Amstrad)
Spec is still very sketchy. 20MBytes . Fairly fast access. DMA transfer.
WD controller chip. All of this for 300 pounds (yess only! 300 pounds).
This comes from a German company called Vortex that allready produce a 512K 
RAM card, an MSDOS card, and are threatening a 61480 card (you know that
chip Hitachi have the cheek to call Z80 compatible. still a very nice processor
though.