P720 CEEFA( 720 Mon 20 Oct 21:18/14 |B420120A|b16MLivj1|j14BBBC|l43000|s—92÷ b÷e|p COMPUTERHARDWARE WHAT 'S BEEN HAPPENING WHILE MICRO LIVE HAS B JJN OFF THE AIR ) - Steve THEAMSTRADP C. A biggest stir in the world of computer rdware with the launch of their go-faste r IBM PC clones. TIBMPC compatibles. As with any IBM clone the only PC 0) compatible with an IBM PC is an IBM P C. A ensuring that any software which un on the IBM PC will run on the Amstrad PC. They have done a good W starting price around £460 they have ma nz of the usual 'extras' G EM and monitor thrown in as standard. Th ey are all based on echnology - Nothing special there. The b ig attraction bly chjapjr than any alternative - Even when P720 CEEFA( 720 Mon 20 Oct 21:13/24 |B420220A|a16MLivj1|i14BBBC|l43382|s—92÷ b÷e|pounts IBM offers to their "ig corpo rate PCSOFTWARE T in the price of the hardware has stirred up most of the UK PCSA strad PCs, dealer's margins will shrink bnd old to look a little obscene compared with the price of the hardware. The software industry's solutions to this vary. CAXTON/SAGESOFT S Caxton and Sagesoft have matched Amstra d's drop in S bit software prices for the Amstrad dprocessor and their sales went up 1400% . Dropping their 16 bit (eg. Sage Accountant: Old price £695, no w £199) looks like est. At launch they received advanced o rders for PC LOTUS A scale, Lotus will be doing absolutely no thing AIP720 CEEFAX 720 Mon 20 Oct 21:14/11 |B220320A|a16MLive1|i14BBBC|l436FF|s—92÷ b÷e|p-3 you pay the old price for iu. Th e -3 was worth that price yesterday ould a cheap machine change things - Wok ld you expect chjapjr food cookers got cheaper? - 1 - ASHTONTATEMICROSOFTCOMPSOFT MAT Microsoft and Compsoft have yet reaction to the Amstrad PC - 'Brain dana ged software'. Cheaper but rsions of their high priced full functio n packages. MJW sis some of its full blown features like its CD available at £99.95 limited to working n 1,000 records rather the full blown 32 ,000 you get from the full F that you'de still pay the 'big-boy' psi ce of around £625. COMPAQ F rom 'dime a dozen' Amstrads to the s|cP720 CEEFAX 720 Mon 20 Oct 21:24/44 |B220420A|a16MLivj1|i14BBBC|l43A8D|s—92÷ b÷e|prate of the art COMPAQ 386, they ill all run the operating system MS DOS. The first machine to be based I tel's latest microprocessor, the 80386, the COMPAQ is priced from Compaq aims for a quite different market to Amstrad - The so who needs around 4 million instuctions per second, RAM cessor intensive applications like big S preadshjets, Artificial Intelligence app lications or Computer Aided D O Se Apricot and Compaq are looking to so called 'power-users' to buy their co mpatibli products now. APRICOTX EN I AIBMPC market share in the UK were forced to ull out from their low cost PC product l inj and focus on a new top-ind The Xjn i - An up-market, fast, IBM AT Clone. IAP720 CEEFAX 720 Mon 20 Oct 21:10/11 |B220520A|a16MLivj1|i14BBBC|l43E07|s—:2÷ b÷e|pad's hope that they could sell 800, 000 PCs in d year for Amstrad and an interesting yj ar PC #### ######################################## ############################## - 2 - APPLEIICG G ooh ideas won't lii down - 10 years sinc e Apple first came out with the APPLEII they'vj now conj up with a 16 bit Apple IJ GS offering a bit g. HOMEMICROS M s have been no more than cosmetic change s to old SPECTRUMPLUS 2 TSS to the Amstrad empire has been with to give the Spectrum Plus 2. It's k ot a real keyboard at n cassette recorder. It sits strangely a longsidj the A njs. Only the strong may survive. P720 CEEFAX 720 Mon 20 Oct 21:25/12 |B220v20A|a16MLivj1|i14BBBC|l441A4|s—92÷ b÷e|p COMMODORE 64 C a restyled Commodore 64, the 64C. It co me with a mouse and C will boost sales of the machine bz bundl ing a cassette ection of software in with the machine. 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