CPC 5512
The home computer CPC 5512 was a joke by the French computer magazine "Hebdogiciel" from 1985, which was revoked in the next issue, but resulted in legal consequences.
The supposed calculator
hardware
- Z80A CPU
- CPC-6128 housing
- 5.25 " floppy disk drive instead of a 3" drive
- 512 KB RAM ( bank switching )
- Real time clock
software
The reality and the judicial aftermath
The model was assembled from computer parts and some paper and then photographed. It was without function and of course was never produced.
Amstrad sold its CPC 6128 model at the same time and worked on its later IBM compatible models. In anticipation of the CPC 5512, sales of the CPC 6128 in the French market fell, something Amstrad and its trading partners were not happy about. The courts were sued, but nothing is known of the outcome of the proceedings.
The effects of the otherwise successful article could have been avoided with a correction in the same edition, but it did not appear until the next edition.
The CPC 6512
Independently of the French April Fool's joke , the German computer magazine c't published a conversion manual for upgrading a CPC 6128 to 512 KB RAM in October 1987. The result, the " CPC 6512 ", was the subject of several articles.