UK: AMSTRAD INTROS SERIES 5 PCS 09/19/91 LONDON, ENGLAND, 1991 SEP 19 (NB) -- Amstrad has unveiled its new Series 5 range of PCs, as well as two new PCW series word processors at the Business Computing Show in London.

In addition to the new product unveilings, Amstrad has shown its ACL 386SX colour laptop, which will ship in Europe next month. The company's two notebooks, the ANB 286SX20 and the ANB 386SX40, introduced at the Cebit computer show in March of this year, will also ship in the same time frame, Amstrad officials announced.

Amstrad Chairman Alan Sugar, said: "Our new Series 5 range of computer products is further evidence of our belief that the market is ready for competitively priced, small footprint desktop models for users who do not need truly massive expansion capability, but who do not want uncluttered desks."

"Our first small footprint model, the highly specified PC 4386SX, known as the Shoehorn, is now shipping in volume and we believe that today's 5086 and 5286 models will attract a substantial market following," he added.

Sugar went on to say that the company's PCW word processors have been a "brilliant and enduring success, but it is now time to update them."

"Accordingly, we have made radical design and cosmetic changes and will in future ship them with 3.5-inch disk drives," he said.

"We are also showing for the first time in the U.K. our colour laptop, the ACL 386SXm which we will start to ship next month at UKP 3,999, and our two notebook products, the ANB 386SX20, which will retail at UKP 1,399, and the ANB 386SX40, which will be retailed at UKP 1,699," he added.