The PC1512 is 1986 more presented, to a large extent a home computer compatible to the IBM-PC, which was manufactured by the company Amstrad. The PC1512 was one first IBM compatible computer in Europe was privately used. It used Intel 8086 with 8MHz and with 512kb RAM was delivered, could however on 640kb be rigged. In Germany the PC - like already the other Amstrad computers - was sold by the cutters computer division under own name.

The 1512 with (PC1512 SD) or one offered to two (PC1512 dd) floppy drive assemblies. Besides the buyers between a black-and-white or could select a color monitor. The PC was identical with both monitor versions: The 1512 had an easily modified CGA representation. On the S/W monitor the colors were indicated as gray tones.

A characteristic 1512 were the provided operating systems: Apart from of Microsoft MS-DOS also the DOS plus of digitally Research as well as the graphic user surface well-known which is based on CP/M of the Atari home computer was attached to the PC IN ACCORDANCE WITH (Graphical Environment manager). Therefore this computer had already according to standard a 2-Tasten-Maus, which was attached however awkward way on the left PC side.

Remarkable it is also that at the 1512 the power pack was not integrated in the PC housing, but in the monitor was. As buffer battteries for the BIOS four AA-batteries were used, which were under the monitor admission in the PC housing.

A cutter 1512 with a floppy drive assembly and a S/W monitor cost 1986 scarcely under 2000 DM.

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