I remember when I first saw a CPC464 in a shop I was working in, in 1984.
It was a very neat answer to what the market needed in 1982. But by 1984, cassette storage and Z80s were clearly long in the tooth—it came out the same year as the Macintosh, and 12 months late Atari STs and Amigas were showing up. https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/112351091848131466
@BritishTechGuru@cstross@keyboards When I first came across Mr Sugar in the late 70s (Amstrad was based in E London then - Walthamstow? Ilford? - before moving to Shoeburyness), he was definitely an over-ambitious barrowboy.
Nothing much changed over 40+ years...
I mean, with climate change we're going to NEED big-ass container ships that can go really fast, just to move food around between regions hit by drought/crop failure. And nuclear is obviously a smart bet (because it's carbon-neutral), and for a half-million-ton ship it's even reasonable. But why pick a fuel cycle that lends itself to weapons proliferation?
