A look into the past: Amstrad (Schneider) CPC 464
I took out from the garage an old thing that ten years ago my grandfather sold for a lot of money as a supercomputer, and what I did not care about then, since I could not figure it out. And now I want to show it to you.
Under cat traffic.
Amstrad CPC 464 is an 8-bit personal computer product in 1984 by Amstrad at a price of 249 pounds, as a competitor to the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The presented Schneider CPC 464 computer of the GT65 modification is the same Amstrad only for the markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland with a green screen.
Technical specifications:
CPU Zilog Z80 (2.5 MHz)
64 K RAM
Sound General Instrument AY-3-8912
Cassette recorder
Operating system Locomotive BASIC 1.0
Overview:
On the front keyboard case we have a speaker and connectors for a monitor, power supply, 3 "flop plug connection, a printer, a joystick connector (the joystick itself is lost somewhere), a headphone output:
In this case, the monitor connector was remade by craftsmen for COM for some reason:
Right the volume control and the toggle switch:
On the monitor, power, brightness, contrast, frame rate and power buttons:
Under the keyboard:
Now the filling. Inside we have a motherboard:
It has a base - processor:
On the right side is the RAM and logic matrix:
And on the left, m sound circuits, peripheral interface, 32K ROM bios and CRT controller:
Also in the case there is a cassette recorder:
And its board:
Also, information on the batch number:
Well, finally included and ready to go:
