Amstrad PC2286

RH-VH4H

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 with three expansion slots
CPU
Intel 80286-12
OS
MS-DOS 3.3 / GEM

Machine

Catalogue model
PC2286 — Amstrad PC, 1989

Motherboard

RH-NSERmotherboard

Amstrad PC2286

Chipset
Amstrad 40231/L
CPU family
286-class
Form factor
proprietary
RAM slots
4× 30-pin SIMM
Onboard RAM
640KiB
Ports
Floppy

Parts

1
RH-EJN6storage

Teac FD-235HF

Kind
Floppy/Gotek
Interface
34-pin floppy
Media
3.5"
Colour
Off-white
Form factor
3.5"
Size
1.44MB

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