another Amstrad sighting

[arnoldemu]

Stephen Fry: Gadget Man, 8th December 2012.

Stephen talked to Alan Sugar where they tested a Nokia phone.

Here is a blog post about it.
Lord Alan Sugar's Nokia Lumia 920 on Stephen Fry: Gadget Man : My Nokia

More interestingly Alan showed the PCW 8256 and NC100. There was a 464 in the background which was seen but never mentioned.
No sign of a Plus or a cpc6128.

[MacDeath]

where can we see the video ?


there ?
Stephen Fry: Gadget Man - 4oD - Channel 4


Shyte, Can't watch it from my country...

No sign of a Plus or a cpc6128.

being the cheap scroodge he is, Alan Sugar only got the cheapest models from each ranges.
PCW9512 and CPC6128 are too expensive obviously.

[db6128]

being the cheap scroodge he is, Alan Sugar only got the cheapest models from each ranges.
PCW9512 and CPC6128 are too expensive obviously.

So where was the GX4000?

CPC needs more love anyway, Sir Alan!

[Gryzor]

Yeah, obviously the video is UK-only...

[beaker]

... I am watching it via the link in the Republic of Ireland right now 

Here's some grabs for anyone who can't get it...

[MacDeath]

Monocolour CPC464 ?

I knew he would have taken the cheapest config.

No sign of a Plus

Wrong, we can clearly see a GX4000 on the pictures recently posted, which is technically a "PLUS", and was actually the cheapest (also less equipped) PLUS configuration available.

I bet he still uses a PC1512 too..

I am watching it via the link in the Republic of Ireland right now

I knew britons were soemwhat racists against French but this is ridiculous... how can I become Anglophile if i can't even watch english broadcast ?
Or does this means UK still consider Ireland being its possession ?

[beaker]

I knew he would have taken the cheapest config.

Everyone knows the English all used unexpanded 464's and the show was made for British TV. A 6128 would have just caused confusion with the viewing public 

I knew britons were soemwhat racists against French but this is ridiculous... how can I become Anglophile if i can't even watch english broadcast ?
Or does this means UK still consider Ireland being its possession ?

Please, the English aren't racist; they just have a deep-seated mistrust of all foreigners, not just the French 
I guess with the size of the country and the Republic sharing a border with the British Northern Ireland most companies include Ireland in their business model, even UK X-Factor TV show comes to Dublin for auditions and allows Irish people to vote.
"L'Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers" and they're taking over Ireland using commerce.... Today I went food shopping in Tesco's where I also filled up my car, bought some clothes in Debenhams, got some bits for my cold in Boots Chemist and bought a new phone in Carphone Warehouse. I even went into HMV to look for a CD for my parents and then Curry's/PC World to look for a tablet. Then I went home and turned on Sky which shows all of the UK television channels with the exception of Channel 5...

[AMSDOS]

Is Mr. Fry being twitted this information? 

[buzby]

i tweeted alan sugar about this program and his hardware he had on show or for not showing certain hardware and as per usual he wasnt bothered


if anyone follows him all he is interested in is sending tweets about things he is selling and the football score etc and wont even reply  to any tweets


i have come to think he is very arrogant


just saying lol

[Gryzor]

Who told you he cares?

Anyhow, thanks for the screenies

[AMSDOS]

I bet he still uses a PC1512 too..

This is actually a cool machine. My Grandfather received a PC1512 for charity, I would have loved to have kept that machine, though I didn't want to be seen to be taking every computer he was receiving even though they were mostly old PCs and Apple ][e's and one Amstrad PCW.    The PC1512 had DOS Plus 1.2+ (which is CP/M-86 4.1 I believe according to John Elliott), and was running GEM 3.x. The only setback was it was GEM 3.1 I think which came a few years after Apple Sued DR for copying their Apple OS. The PC1512 didn't have any HD, so it had Dual 5.25" Double Sided Double Density Disks, which was more than enough for GEM and along with GEM you got Locomotive BASIC 2.x which is so different to the CPC version, though designed to create applications in GEM, I guess you could say it was the precursor to Microsoft's Visual BASIC, though like the CPC version of Locomotive BASIC, I don't believe there was any means of compiling programs which meant you had to load Locomotive BASIC in GEM in order to Load the BASIC files.