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[[Category:CPC related companies]]
A UK-based hardware firm. KDS has been one of the first companies to make CPC peripherals, they have had adverts in every issue of ACU from January 1985 to February 1987. After February 1987 they seem to have vanished suddenly.
A UK-based hardware firm.


== Hardware ==
== Hardware ==


* [[KDS Electronics Serial Interface|KDS Serial Interface]]
* [[KDS Electronics Serial Interface|KDS Serial Interface]] (1/1985) (9/1986: new version with Comms Pak software)
* [[KDS Power Controller]]
* [[KDS Twin 8bit I/O Port]] (1/1985) (4/1986 advert says it uses Z80APIO)
* [[KDS 5¼" Disc Drive]]
* [[KDS 8-Bit Printer Port]] (4/1985) (4/1986 advert says (new version?) without power input needed)
* [[KDS 8-Bit Printer Port]]
* [[KDS Sideways ROM Board]] (7/1985: original version for 4 roms) (4/1986: new version for 5 roms)
* [[KDS ROM Board]]
* [[KDS Communicator 104]] (7/1985) (this modem connects directly to the CPC's expansion port)
* [[KDS Communicator 104]] (this modem connects directly to the CPC's expansion port)
* [[KDS Power Controller]] (4/1986)
* [[Mini-Max Modem|KDS Mini-Max Modem]] (this modem connects via RS232 interface)
* KDS Serial and Parallel Port (4/1986) (for PCW, not for CPC)
* Serial and Parallel Port
* KDS Printer T Switch (4/1986)
* Printer T Switch
* [[Mini-Max Modem|KDS Mini-Max Modem]] (9/1986) (this modem connects via RS232 interface)
* [[KDS 5¼" Disc Drive]] (19xx ?)
* [[ROMDOS]] (19xx ?)
* KDS Chatterbox (for PCW, not for CPC)


== Software ==
== Software ==


* [[RAMDOS]] and [[ROMDOS]] (later resold by [[Siren Software]])
* [[RAMDOS]] and [[ROMDOS]] (later resold by [[Siren Software]])
== Unidentified Hardware ==
[[Image:KDS.jpg|right|thumb|250px|KDS Interface for the Amstrad]]
'''KDS Interface for the Amstrad''' - there is some confusion on this device.
* Some people say it'd be a serial interface - this may be true, but it's definetly NOT the [[KDS Electronics Serial Interface]] (which has a 50pin connector).
* The device looks quite similar to the [[KDS 8-Bit Printer Port]] but with an additional cable attached to it, which isn't attached (or isn't visible) on the 8bit port photo, [[Media:KDS8Bit.jpg]].
Actually, the [[KDS 8-Bit Printer Port]] should require a similar cable (for 5V power supply, which isn't available on the CPCs 34pin printer port). So it's quite possible that the "KDS Interface" and "KDS 8-Bit Printer Port" are the same hardware, both having the cable, but with the cable being not visible on one of the photos for whatever reason.


== Adverts ==
== Adverts ==


<gallery>
<gallery caption="1985">
File:ACU850102 -063.jpg|ACU Jan/Feb 1985
File:ACU850102 -063.jpg|ACU Jan/Feb 1985
File:Amstrad Computer User8503_066.jpg|ACU Mar 1985
File:Amstrad Computer User8503_066.jpg|ACU Mar 1985
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File:ACU8512-124.jpg|ACU Dec 1985
File:ACU8512-124.jpg|ACU Dec 1985
</gallery>
</gallery>
<gallery caption="1986">
File:ACU8601-052.jpg|ACU Jan 1986
File:ACU8602-097.jpg|ACU Feb 1986
File:ACU8603-040.jpg|ACU Mar 1986
File:ACU8604-090.jpg|ACU Apr 1986
File:ACU8605-048.jpg|ACU May 1986
File:ACU8606-131.jpg|ACU Jun 1986
File:ACU8607-131.jpg|ACU Jul 1986
File:ACU8608-127.jpg|ACU Aug 1986
File:ACU8609-078.jpg|ACU Sep 1986
File:ACU8610-094.jpg|ACU Oct 1986
File:ACU8611-101.jpg|ACU Nov 1986
File:ACU8612-047.jpg|ACU Dec 1986
</gallery>
<gallery caption="1987">
File:ACU8701103.jpg|ACU Jan 1987
File:ACU8702090.jpg|ACU Feb 1987
</gallery>
[[Category:CPC related companies]]

Latest revision as of 11:46, 18 September 2010

A UK-based hardware firm. KDS has been one of the first companies to make CPC peripherals, they have had adverts in every issue of ACU from January 1985 to February 1987. After February 1987 they seem to have vanished suddenly.

Hardware

Software

Adverts

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