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Amstrad CPC 6128

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I purchased Turbo Pascal 3 for Amstrad CPC 6128 with my pocket money back in 1989(?). That was 1000 FF back then (~275€ today) so quite a big sum for a teenager. My dad took pity on me and funded 50% of it. Best investment ever! Learning Pascal after Locomotive Basic was night and day. And the speeeeeed! I could finally computer 320x200 Mandelbrot set renderings in reasonable amounts of time (few minutes IIRC). I still have the disk & manual somewhere, as well as a couple related books. And for whatever reason Ctrl-K Ctrl-W still haunts my mind. It's really mind boggling that the entire thing (CP/M + IDE + compiler + libraries) fit on one side of a 3" floppy disk (<180 kB).
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I'm pretty sure my Dad got ours because they were being sold off very cheaply after TI pulled out of the home computer market. Like you I ended up learning BASIC on it because as an abandoned system all we had was a few cartridge games, some user-group programs, and typed in BASIC. It worked out pretty well really. (Later we got an Amstrad CPC 6128, which had a much bigger commercial games market.)
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These listings are fun to explore. As a teenager I got my first 8-bit computer. A lot of my friends had Commodore 64. But a good computer salesman sold me and my dad on the british Amstrad CPC 6128[0]. It had the disk drive and a green monitor. Great computer. Great salesman. They had this newfangled Commodore Amiga but he did not know much about it. It was at the same price but without a monitor so my dad reasoned it would be better as I would then not occupy the living room TV with my computer. I could have jumpstarted my career on 16 bit. I could have been a contender! The Amstrad had a Z80 CPU and ran Locomotive Basic when powered on. But it came with a disk containing CPM Plus 3.0. That was used for "business-like" things such as copying files using "pip to_me from_you". That in turn made me the local über-geek in the computer room in my public school. They had 2 expensive danish made and rather rare Intel 80186 (yes - 80 one 86) based RC Piccoline[1] computers. They in turn each had 4 terminals and 1 dot matrix printer (a typical school setup at the time). A fact which never really dawned upon me at the time what "Concurrent" in CCP/M meant. My geek flex was when the vice principal fetched me during a regular class to help him remove a defamatory text file from a 5,25" floppy disk. He was not able to delete the file himself. I identified the "read-only" attribute was set and such wizardry was rarely seen around those parts. Back in the day when computing was much more h…