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title: "Late News Flash: Amstrad Discontinues Spectrum +3"
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excerpt: "Brief news item reporting that Amstrad has stopped production of the Spectrum +3 (the model with a built-in 3\" disk drive) and plans to discontinue all Spectrum products by December 1991 if sales continue to fall."
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# Late News Flash: Amstrad Discontinues Spectrum +3

Brief news item reporting that Amstrad has stopped production of the Spectrum +3 (the model with a built-in 3″ disk drive) and plans to discontinue all Spectrum products by December 1991 if sales continue to fall.