Return of Amstrad is more resurrection than relaunch

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/121b7e5a-2f4f-4458-8241-0efa9105171e?shareToken=59e0c911fe676e4eb3ee6fb529508917

As you would expect, a Mr Perry is quoted extensively.

Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Return of Amstrad is more resurrection than relaunch
>
> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/121b7e5a-2f4f-4458-8241-0efa9105171e?shareToken=59e0c911fe676e4eb3ee6fb529508917
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> As you would expect, a Mr Perry is quoted extensively.
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>

But not our Mr Perry - seems to be a Scott Perry.

On 15/03/2024 05:47, Recliner wrote:
> Return of Amstrad is more resurrection than relaunch
>
> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/121b7e5a-2f4f-4458-8241-0efa9105171e?shareToken=59e0c911fe676e4eb3ee6fb529508917
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> As you would expect, a Mr Perry is quoted extensively.
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Scott Perry?
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Graeme Wall
This account not read.

Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Return of Amstrad is more resurrection than relaunch
>>
>> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/121b7e5a-2f4f-4458-8241-0efa9105171e?shareToken=59e0c911fe676e4eb3ee6fb529508917
>>
>> As you would expect, a Mr Perry is quoted extensively.
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>
> But not our Mr Perry - seems to be a Scott Perry.

Hence my use of the indefinite article. I think our Mr Perry would argue
with this Mr Perry.

In message <4iRIN.21218$QUO3.3232@fx15.ams1>, at 05:47:44 on Fri, 15 Mar
2024, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:

>Return of Amstrad is more resurrection than relaunch
>
>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/121b7e5a-2f4f-4458-8241-0efa9105171e?
>shareToken=59e0c911fe676e4eb3ee6fb529508917
>
>As you would expect, a Mr Perry is quoted extensively.

There's a number of cross-purposes here (not just the clash of surname).

What people don't seem to understand (several online fan clubs included)
is this isn't about the 1980's home computers at all. He's not planning
on re-starting development and manufacturing of new ones, let alone
replicas of the original ones.

It has its roots in a business which one of his sons started, which is
advertising screens in places like petrol station kiosks, a model he now
has plans to take online.

I don't understand what the vale of the brand is to that market, not
least because what they'll be advertising is other people's products,
and it's virtually unknown for the advertising agency to have its own
brand recognition (part from perhaps Saatchi and Saatchi).

The Amstrad Retro scene in the UK is very weak, unlike Spain where it
was the leading brand in the 80's. And they have dedicated events like:
https://amstradeterno.com/ as well as Amstrad usually being the best
represented platform at generic retro fairs. C64 probably second, and
Sinclair/Acorn not even on the radar.

Spain never did have its own home computer hardware industry, but they
churned out (and are still doing new ones) hundreds of games. Roland in
the Caves, and Roland on the Ropes being the first examples.

France and Germany are beginning to show signs of joining that revival.
Someone has recently got funding to open a retro-computing museum in
Paris, and I suppose I'll have to go to the opening whenever it is (2025
probably).

Here, everyone is obsessed with the inferior Sinclair and Acorn product
lines. Which doesn't mean they were originally misconceived, but two or
three years later, they had failed to refresh their portfolio and so a
better designed and better production engineered product with better
distribution channels wiped the floor.
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Roland Perry