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From: pv@korppi.tut.fi (Vuorimaa Petri Kalevi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: anyone heard of "Amstrad" pc clone?
Message-ID: <5605@naakka.tut.fi>
Date: 9 Dec 88 22:12:26 GMT
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From article <401500bd.14dc3@gogol>, by wagner@procase.UUCP (Mark Wagner):
> 
> So specificially: has anyone heard of a pc clone called "Amstrad"
> and if so how does it compare to other clones in terms of price/
> performance/ etc.?

A friend of mine was considering buying a one.
He doesn't know that much of computers, so he asked
me to a have a look at the machine.

Basicly it's very cheap at least here in Finland (that's why
he was considering Amstrad PC). At first the machine
looked quite nice. Later on when I asked questions
from the seller I didn't like it that much any more.

The biggest problem was that Amstrad PC is compatible
with NOTHING! It has it's own mouse and so on ...
The man at shop even claimed that one cannot put
normal 3.5" disk drive inside the machine. You have to use
some special version (I didn't believe him for that :-)

Anyway, it's cheap as toys usually are!