@BritishTechGuru@chrisdrake@keyboards If you wanted decent quality gear you bought Japanese, or Apple, or Compaq, or whatever. But Amstrad pioneered the niche of I-got-it-cheap-on-Ali-Express before the Chinese tech boom was on the horizon.
(I think he burned out/lost interest in the late 80s/early 90s, having made enough money for one lifetime. So he became a TV reality show parody boss on "The Apprentice" and bought his own legend, only without the Tangerine Shitgibbon's corruption.)