== A very partial history of Amstrad ==
(from [[WACCI ]] issue 136, written by [[User:ChaRleyTroniC|ChaRleyTroniC]])
In the beginning was the word. And the word was '''Amstrad'''. And the word was a rather corny conflation of AMS (Alan Michael Sugar) and Trading. And when [[Adam Shade]] came to name his [[PD libraries|PD library]], he called it [[Dartsma]], possibly because he thought it’d be amusing to reverse such a well-known name, but more probably because he just couldn’t spell it.
This article is not the result of searches through '''Amstrad’s''' archives. Nor is it even a competent hack-job rephrasing David Thomas’s biography of [[Alan M. Sugar|Alan Sugar]] (quite a fun book, and worth digging out). It’s just how I remember it from years of reading [[Popular Computing Weekly]], [[New Computer Express]] and the like. So don’t quote me on any of it!
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== Links ==
* [https://youtu.be/EeqRpnv2_HM "Everything we did, we did it immediately" - Roland Perry interview] by [[The Centre for Computing History]]
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