The Amstrad PC1512 was Amstrad's mostly IBM PC-compatible computer system, first manufactured in 1986. Next year a slight updated version named PC1640 was introduced. It was also marketed as PC6400, and Sinclair PC500. Schneider branded machines for the German market also exists.
Amstrad PC-1512 at National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, UK
Amstrad PC1640 on display in Museo Almeriense de Retroinformática
Schneider-badged version of the Amstrad 1512 DD
Amstrad PC-1512 DD on display at Retrosystems 2010
Amstrad was a British consumer electronics company, founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar. During the 1980s, the company was known for its home computers beginning with the Amstrad CPC and later also the ZX Spectrum range after the Sinclair deal, which led it to have a substantial share of the PC market in Britain. In the following decade it shifted focus towards communication technologies, and its main business during the 2000s was the manufacture of satellite television set-top boxes for Sky, which Amstrad had started in 1989 as the then sole supplier of the emerging Sky TV service.
Sugar Tower in Brentwood, England (pictured in 2005)
Amstrad 7070 tape deck (c. 1970s)
The Amstrad CPC 464 personal microcomputer (1984)
Amstrad PCW8512 word processor (1985)