Of all the players in the home computer world in the 1980s, Alan Sugar’s Amstrad was a step ahead in ease of use over its competitors. The Amstrad CPC series of computers came with their own ...

Maybe American home offices during this period might have had PC clones, but for Brits there was every chance that the parental powerhouse would have been an Amstrad PCW. Amstrad were the masters ...

Broadcaster BSkyB has struck a deal to buy television set-top box maker Amstrad for about £125m. Amstrad, which was founded by the star of BBC One's The Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar, supplies about 30% ...

Anyone out there with an old forgotten Amstrad computer in their attic – you’re about to have an 8-bit of luck. Because the man who sold it to you might be offering to buy it back. Amstrad ...

He wanted to draw upon everything he had learned from the moment that he had formed Amstrad in 1968 and transfer ... of chucking a bunch of chips into a box and putting a plastic cabinet around ...

The Amstrad chief executive and chairman, majority shareholder at the set-top box maker, said he could not "imagine a better home" for the business.