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...It developed and published games for the Amiga, Amstrad and ZX Spectrum home computers in the 1980s, including the Dizzy series, starring an adventurous egg, and BMX simulators....
...Mr Czechowicz went to the market in Wroclaw to sell his Amstrad. Instead, he sold some of the maths programs he had written for it....
...The Amstrad, as it’s new, would sell on eBay closer to its original price....
...An “alpha” trial of some 350 homes was agreed last week by YouView’s board, which is chaired by Lord Sugar, the former Amstrad entrepreneur and host of The Apprentice reality TV show....
...An army of youngsters learning programming on these home computers from Sinclair, Acorn, Commodore and Amstrad went on to found computer games companies....
...Mr Leighton said that Amstrad was rarely discussed at BSkyB meetings and that if it did come up, he would excuse himself from any discussions....
...Lord Sugar, best known for his appearances on the The Apprentice, founded Amstrad, the electronics business in 1968....
...It recently appointed as its new chairman Lord Sugar, founder of Amstrad, the set-top box company that was acquired by BSkyB in 2008....
...My first computer was an Amstrad bought in the mid-80s for £199 in the Tottenham Court Road....
...But Amstrad, the electronics company he founded, is no more....
...Having bought box-maker Amstrad and consolidated its supply-chain, Sky is ready to offer the boxes for free to new and upgrading customers....
...In the poll, top managers at 25 businesses objected to the founder of the Amstrad computer company being given his new role, with 11 voicing support and 23 failing to give an opinion....
...In the event, Mr Brown held on to power this Monday by exercising a management style every bit as robust as that of the Amstrad founder....
...Initially famous for home computers and word processors, by 2006 Amstrad was making most of its money from TV set-top boxes....
...The Amstrad founder and entrepreneur, known for this role hosting T he Apprentice television show, will gain a peerage in his new post promoting and supporting small businesses....
...Sir Alan, Amstrad founder and host of The Apprentice on BBC television, is already a close confidant of Mr Brown. His appointment to the government would ensure headlines saying: “You’re hired.”...
...I don’t see this as a political thing”, said the Amstrad founder and entrepreneur....
...Lord Amstrad of Emailer was leaving the building. He had looked into our souls. He had seen cowardice, dishonesty and defeatism. We, the audience, were fired. Next week I am going cage-fighting....
...When they bought Amstrad [in 2007], people raised eyebrows about the price but, from our perspective, that now looks like a very, very good deal....
...When asked at the series’ launch this week if he agreed, the Amstrad founder replied: “If you’d asked me: ‘Is making money better than sex?’ 30 years ago, I’d say: ‘It depends.’...
...Sir Alan Sugar, the founder of Amstrad computers and host of BBC television’s The Apprentice, has built a 3.9 per cent stake in Woolworths, the retailer fighting to survive mounting debts and a consumer...
...Meanwhile, the Telegraph reports that Sir Alan Sugar, millionaire founder of Amstrad computers, has acquired a near-4% stake in Woolworths, the troubled retailer....
...Sir Alan Sugar has retired, rather than been fired, as chairman of Amstrad, the electrical goods distributor where he made his name....
...When we meet in Brentwood, Essex, at Amstrad’s drab 1980s concrete office block, Ambrose is wearing a large and boxy dark suit....
...BSkyB owns Amstrad, a set-top box maker, but sources 70 per cent of its boxes from other companies such as Pace, Thomson and Samsung which already assemble some boxes for BSkyB within the EU, avoiding the...
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