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Definition: Amstrad CPC
(Amstrad Colour Personal Computer) A personal computer from British consumer electronics company Amstrad. Introduced in 1984, Amstrad CPCs were 8-bit Z80 computers that competed very successfully with the Commodore 64 and Sinclair's ZX Spectrum in the U.K., France, Spain and Germany until discontinued in 1990. See Z80.
An Amstrad 464
Amstrad computers were "almost" all-in-one computers because the CPU, memory and storage were housed in the keyboard. More than two million were sold. (Image courtesy of Bill Bertram, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. No alterations were made.)