Going through all the CRTs today and every single Amstrad monitor works. These things are bombproof.

March 04, 2026 - 12:17 UTC

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I donated my CPC and green screen monitor to a social club on the other side of the city when I was a lad. Lugged the monitor on the bus. Mate brought the computer and the big bag of hooky tapes. Screen fell off the bus seat twice. Computer went flying a couple times, too.

Worked perfectly.
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Tempting faith, I see :)
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Hh man, I would have loved an Amstrad Colour Monitor back in the day. My nan could only afford to get me a green-screen model.
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Green was the only way. Much better resolution for programming and writing articles for computer magazines!
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Wait! Amstrad made reliable products!?

:O
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That's coz no one ever switched them on, the machines being so horrible and all that....
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I want an Amstrad 464 so badly. We Americans can get pretty cocky about the cool stuff we have, but when it comes to microcomputers you guys are living the dream.
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We went a different way in the '80s. Consoles like the NES didn't really get a foothold here as we had a homegrown microcomputer market (and you could convince your parents to buy one by pointing out that you could learn to program with it, not mentioning games!)
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Underappreciated. I'll be continuing my campaign to improve the CPC representation in the cave. 😉
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By throwing them all out?😜
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I have had to recycle (at the recycle centre) several CTM 644's and CM14's in the last couple of years as unfortunately mine were failing and although they probably only needed a recap or yoke adjustment I was not brave enough to do it myself and could find no one in Ireland to do it for me :'(
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Evidently they found the right factory when they commissioned these! I wonder if they were sold with any other badging? It wasn't uncommon for otherwise identical camera lenses to turn up with different logos on back then, the factory adding whatever branding the importer had specified.
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Remembering when I used to be super into collecting crt displays
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The Amstrad CPC range were actually not bad machines, technically speaking. Though it's obvious they originally intended to use a 6502 processor, and changed to a Z-80 at the last minute.
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They probably thought they could port existing games from the Commodore 64 library. But the C64 graphics architecture (sprites and char-mapped text) is very different from the typical British home computer design (all pixels individually addressable), and the job was never going to be easy.
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Good, we need bombproof hardware this days. 😜
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the main issue ive seen with them is that the STK module in the power supply dies, and theyre unobtainium
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I’ve got one in the garage. Still fires up every time.
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Might be the only valuable service to mankind ever provided by Alan Sugar.
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Loved my CPC 464 ❤️
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Schneider CPC 464 with colour monitor
For Christmas same price as green monitor
1984,I think
What a basic
Locomotive 1.0
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I have a few and tend to find the controls get a bit "noisy" if they haven't been used for a while.
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Yes that brightnes dial on the right needs a good dousing of contact cleaner
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IIRC there’s 2 manufacturers of CTM640/644, Orion is one of them. One of the two brands is very resilient and you might still be able to get flybacks for them from HR Diemen. The other is less resilient and no spares are available. You must be lucky 😄
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I've repaired quite a few in the past and never seen one that wasn't made by Orion.
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