NC - Amstrad Notepad released in Australia
Amstrad Notepad released in Australia - Amstrad Notepad N100 notebook computer - Product Announcement
Amstrad Notepad Released In Australia 08/31/92 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1992 AUG 31 (NB) -- The Amstrad Notepad (model N100) has been introduced in Australia and company founder Alan Sugar claims anyone can afford it, and anyone can use it, right out of the box. Sugar even wrote much of the instruction book himself.
In appearance its similar to the old Tandy 100 computer, being 297 x 27 x 210mm (around 12 x 1 x 8 inches) and 1kg (2.2 lb) ready to run. It has a full 80 character width screen, but only eight lines of text, though this isn't a problem with this type of machine, and keeps battery consumption down (giving 40 hours from four AA penlight cells).
It has 64-keys, 64K RAM, two memory card slots (up to 1M each), a serial and a parallel socket, speaker, clock, giant digit calculator, multiple alarm, calendar/diary, address book, BBC Basic programming language and word processing with a 48,000-word dictionary. There are four garishly colored keys which instantly switch the users to any of the built-in applications. It's a