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The Amstrad CPC 6128 was the successor to the
Amstrad CPC 664 which had a very short life. It had almost all the
same features as the 664, except the memory. Like the 664, only 42
Kb could be accessed, the upper 64 Kb were used as a RAM disk or to
store data. It was sold with quite a good quality monitor
(monochrome green or color) and a built-in 3" floppy disk drive (2 x
180 KB).
It ran under Amsdos (the Amstrad Operating System) or under CP/M 2.2
or CP/M 3.0 (CP/M +). The CP/M 2.2 OS was bundled with DR Logo and
CP/M+ with GSX (the graphic extension of CP/M). Like the CPC 664,
the Amstrad CPC 6128 was almost fully compatible with the CPC 464.
The German version of the Amstrad (Schneider CPC 6128) had different
"real" connectors instead of main board edge connectors. Norbert
Unterberg reports that the main reason for this was that the
original Amstrad did not pass the German "FCC" test because it was
polluting its surroundings with electromagnetic waves, and the rules
for that were much stricter in Germany. That's why the Schneider got
real connectors and a metal housing inside.
However, after "Schneider Rundfunkwerke" stopped selling the Amstrad
CPC series of home computers and the PCW series of word-processors,
Amstrad continued to sell the CPC under the Amstrad brand name in
Germany.
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