THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!

The sweet products Lord Sugar should be snapping up for his collection

AMSTRAD CPC 664

Amstrad replaced the tape deck of the 464 with a internal three-inch floppy disk drive but the decision to include 64K of memory meant it was produced for just six months before being replaced by the CPC 6128. Codenamed IDIOT (Includes Disk Instead Of Tape), it sold just 70,000 units, making it a relative rarity.

AMSTRAD STUDIO 100

The Amstrad Studio 100 mixing and recording system was the first to come with a twin tape deck but the company incorporated the feature in most of its subsequent stereo systems – attracting criticism from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for allowing prerecorded cassettes to be copied at high speed.

AMSTRAD PENPAD

The Penpad was a personal digital assistant released in 1993, boasting decent handwriting recognition and a monochrome LCD touchscreen. Based around the Zilog Z180 CPU, it went up against the Apple Newton but sold poorly. “We gave up on the Penpad too soon,” Lord Sugar remembers. “Palmpilot came out after that and sold millions.”

» Amstrad computers – such as the PC 1512 – sold well across Europe. In Germany, the company partnered with Schneider which branded the machines under its own name.