Editing Amstrad CPC (section)

====CPC 472====
[[File:472 es.jpg|thumb|CPC 472]]
During the August holidays of 1985, Spain briefly introduced an import tax of 15&nbsp;000 pesetas ({{€|90.15}}) on computers containing 64&nbsp;KB or less of RAM (Royal Decree 1215/1985<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1985-15514|title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1985-15514 Real Decreto 1215/1985, de 17 de julio, por el que se modifican determinadas subpartidas del arancel de Aduanas.|website=www.boe.es |pages=23677 |lang=es}}</ref> and 1558/1985<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1985-18847|title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1985-18847 Real Decreto 1558/1985, de 28 de agosto, por el que se aclara el alcance del mínimo específico introducido en la subpartida 84.53.B.II del Arancel de Aduanas, por el Real Decreto 1215/1985.|website=www.boe.es |pages=27743–27744 |lang=es}}</ref>), and a new law (Royal Decree 1250/1985<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1985-15611|title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1985-15611 Real Decreto 1250/1985, de 19 de junio, por el que se establece la sujeción a especificaciones técnicas de los terminales de pantalla con teclado, periféricos para entrada y representación de información en equipo de proceso de datos.|website=www.boe.es |pages=23840–23841 |lang=es}}</ref>) mandated that all computers sold in Spain must have a Spanish keyboard. To circumvent this, Amstrad's Spanish distributor ''Indescomp'' (later to become ''Amstrad Spain'') created and distributed the ''CPC 472'', a modified version of the CPC 464. Its main differences are a small additional daughter board containing a CPC 664 ROM chip and an 8&nbsp;KB memory chip, and a keyboard with a [[ñ]] key (although some of them were temporarily manufactured without the ñ key). The sole purpose of the 8&nbsp;KB memory chip (which is not electrically connected to the machine, so consequently rendered unusable) is to increase the machine's total memory specs to 72&nbsp;KB in order to circumvent the import tax. Some months later, Spain joined the [[European Communities]] by the [[Treaty of Accession 1985]] and the import tax was suppressed, so Amstrad added the ñ key for the 464 and production of the CPC 472 was discontinued.<ref name="CPCWikiCPC472">{{cite web|title=CPC472|publisher=CPCWiki|url=http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/472|access-date=17 August 2011}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=September 2020}}