The [[472|CPC 472]] was a Spanish version of the CPC 464 with an additional, non-functional 8KB RAM. The reason was that Spain charged an import tax on home computers with 64K or less RAM, the fake "72K" CPC version bypassed that tax. The tax was invented in September 1985, and was dropped a few months later (when Spain joined the EEC). Also in 1985, but independtly of that tax, Spain dictated that computers must have spanish keyboards, which resulted in two CPC 472 versions: Older models with english keys, newer ones with spanish keys. Another oddity is that the older CPC472 had BASIC 1.1 while the newer CPC472 had BASIC 1.0. The CPC 472 is very rare.
"''We had basically stuck two fingers in the air to the Spanish government, who were trying to screw our business, and there wasn’t much they could do about it''" — Alan Sugar
Read the full story behind the CPC 472 directly from the horse's mouth: https://amstrad.com/product/cpc472/
A few of the PCW's design features which don't appear to make any sense on their own stem from this shared ancestry. But the project was dropped at a fairly early stage, and the CPC Classic lived on before eventually succumbing to the Plus. Only one prototype board is believed to survive, in the possession of ex-Locomotive Software engineer [[Richard Clayton]].
"''We did an Amstrad machine basically a [[PCW]] with hi-res colour and sound synth, called ANT (Arnold Number Two) but it never went anywhere as production. It was really nice, but by then [[Amiga]] did everything we wanted to do, 8-bit was meh, and [[Amstrad PC|PCs]] were more important.''" – — Vik Olliver [https://x.com/VikOlliver/status/1191156134876311554 Source]
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