The man behind the brand, Hackney-born Alan Michael Sugar, famously started in business selling car aerials from the back of his £50 minivan. He called his company A M S Trading – which he shortened to Amstrad. After car aerials he quickly moved on to selling other goods such as transistor radios, intercoms and cigarette lighters. All of these products were bought from importers or wholesalers and sold under the Amstrad brand name. However, Alan Sugar’s ultimate aim was to create his own, original products.
At the end of my first year at the University of Durham in 1974 I managed to get a job during the summer holidays and I earned enough to save up for my first HiFi system. My first system was an Amstrad system, as it had good reviews at the time and was reasonably priced for a student's pocket.
I thought that you might like to know that fifty years on, whilst the amplifier 'died' some years ago, my Amstrad Acousta speakers are still going strong and are still in use today. Now that is what I call an achievement, as well as a bargain !
I would just like to thank you for all the many years of pleasure the music they produce has given me.
I've always been a fan of sky ever since we had the srx200 installed in December 1989. This came with (it shouldn't of really but the installer was generous) the decoder. As time went on, the SRD400 was released and I convinced my mother to buy it had 48 channels and not just 16 and had the decoder built in. Fast forward to now and feeling nostalgic, I tried to look for the boxes but look like they were thrown so found this on ebay. Had a slight fault to which I fixed but now placed where I can see it and bring back memories. As an engineer myself, I am thinking of retro fitting and up to date freesat box inside and let the legacy live on.
I was 10 when I discovered and got my first Amstrad CPC-6128. This computer was magical and I still remember all the games I used to play with back then. This computer reminds my childhood, the best times of my life with my friends around games, magical moments and thrills when you finally finish a game, which you played on and on anyway and knew every little single details of it. You have made the best times of my childhood, happy times, innocent ones where everything was new and magical. I will never forget the first time I have unboxed my CPC-6128 and played on and on. I would give anything to travel through time and go back in 1986. Thank you for having being the companion of the best and most innocent times of my life.