Tuesday, July 31, 2007

AMSTRAD Sold to BSkyB

A historical moment as Sir Alan Sugar sells his 30%+ share in the Alan Michael Sugar Trading Company to Merdoch's Sky - for whom they make Set Top Boxes for. Amstrad was a leading UK supplier of computers in the 80s, many a UK Game designer cut their teeth on an Amstrad.

Alan Sugar is the main protagonist of the UK version of the television programme the Apprentice - oft heard ushering out the contestants with the phrace = "You're fired"

1 Comments:

Anonymous Dom said...

my Amstra CPC 6128 was indeed the first system I did 'proper' programming on (BASIC) :-)

1:22 AM  

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