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title: "Amstrad Getting Stronger"
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excerpt: "When I picked up the MARCH 1988 issue of the COMPUTER SHOPPER from my mailbox, what did I see on the cover but the new AMSTRAD PC 1640 snd a banner proclaiming \"SIR CLIVE RETURNS WITH NEW LAPTOP\". Of course, the first thing I read was the review of the Amstrad 1640. Reviewer Rich Fields…"
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When I picked up the MARCH 1988 issue of the COMPUTER SHOPPER from my mailbox, what did I see on the cover but the new AMSTRAD PC 1640 snd a banner proclaiming “SIR CLIVE RETURNS WITH NEW LAPTOP”. Of course, the first thing I read was the review of the Amstrad 1640. Reviewer Rich Fields was, on the whole, very pleased with the new Amstrad model. He was a little down on the monitor – you still can only use the one provided by Amstrad and a lot down on the user’s manual, but he did give good comments to many of the other things about one of the newest computers in the Amstrad line.