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The Amstrad CPC (or Colour Personal Computer) 464 was released in 1984 in the United Kingdom. Its coloured keys and built-in cassette deck give it a distinct external look. Internally it has a Z80 processor, 64 KB of RAM, and the well-regarded Locomotive BASIC. A large amount of software for the machine was sold on cassette, but Amstrad also sold an external 3" floppy drive (which I do not own) that came with the CP/M operating system. The machine originally shipped with (and in fact took its DC power from) a matching CRT, but I found it easier to use an HDMI converter than get a 230v 50Hz monitor running in the US.
My CPC464 is connected to a modern hobbyist-built expansion called the RSF3 from TMTLogic. This provides expanded memory, option-ROM emulation, mass storage, a mouse port, WiFi, etc. which I use to run the a multitasking graphical operating system called SymbOS, which is under active development by hobbyists and to which my brother is contributing programs.
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