A look into the past: Amstrad (Schneider) CPC 464

I got an old thing out of the garage, which my grandfather sold ten years ago as a supercomputer, and I didn’t care about it then, because I couldn’t deal with it. And now I want to show it to you.

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The Amstrad CPC 464 is an 8-bit personal computer of works in 1984 by Amstrad at a price of 249 pounds, as a competitor to the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The presented computer Schneider CPC 464 modification GT65 - the same Amstrad only for the markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland with a green screen.
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Technical characteristics:

Zilog Z80 processor (2.5 MHz)
64 K RAM
Sound General Instrument AY-3-8912
Cassette recorder
Operating system Locomotive BASIC 1.0

Overview:

On the front of the keyboard, we have a speaker and connectors for the monitor, power supply, a 3 ”floppy connection, a printer, a joystick connector (the joystick itself is lost somewhere), a headphone output:


In this case, for some reason, the monitor connector was remade by the masters for COM:


On the right is the volume control and power switch:


On the monitor, power, brightness, contrast, frame rate and the power button:


Under the keyboard:


Now stuffing. Inside we have a motherboard:


It is based on the processor:


On the right side, the RAM and the logical matrix:


And on the left, sound chips, peripheral interface, 32K ROM bios and CRT controller:


Also in the case there is a cassette recorder:


And its fee:


Also information by lot number:


And finally, it is turned on and ready to work: