Amstrad moving upmarket: a 286 at 12MHz with VGA on the board, aimed at the business buyer who had outgrown a 1512. The 2000 series is where Amstrad's reputation turned, having shipped with a troubled 3.5-inch drive and a hard disk controller that earned the company a famous amount of bad press. That history is most of the interest — it is the machine that ended Amstrad's run as Britain's volume PC maker.

Details

Manufacturer	Amstrad
Model	PC2286
Year	1989
Form factor	proprietary
Chassis	desktop
CPU	Intel 286-10
Condition	Partially working
Source	eBay item no. 26-14977-52480
Acquired	2026-08-11

Machine

Catalogue model	PC2286 — Amstrad PC, 1989

Motherboard

RH-D2XK · Motherboard

Amstrad PC2286

Chipset

discrete

CPU family

286-class

Form factor

proprietary

RAM slots

2× 30-pin SIMM

Slots

4× 8-bit ISA

BIOS

Amstrad

Onboard video

VGA

Ports

Floppy, Serial, Parallel

Parts

1

RH-MHYW · Storage

Toshiba ND-3567AR

Kind

Floppy/Gotek

Interface

34-pin floppy

Media

3.5"

Colour

Beige

Yellowing

Yellowed

Form factor

3.5"

Size

720K

Files

No files for this one yet.

History

2026-08-19	variant: (empty) → PC2286
2026-08-12	linked part RH-MHYW
2026-08-12	linked part RH-D2XK
2026-08-12	added 7 photo(s)
2026-08-12	created