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Triumph

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[[Triumph]] is one the [[LK-selectable Brand Names]] contained in the CPC BIOS, allowing to display the boot message '''Triumph 64K Microcomputer''' on power up. Amstrad apparently planned a partnership with a company with that name. Which company this could have been is a riddle.
 
[[File:Triumph banner.jpg|640px]]
Triumph is one of the [[LK Links]]-selectable brand names in the CPC BIOS, allowing to display the boot message '''Triumph 64K Microcomputer''' on power up. Amstrad apparently planned a partnership with a company with that name. Which company this could have been is a riddle. '''Triumph Internation Underwear''' is possibly the most popular company that uses Triumph as brand name. It Though it is rather doubtworthy that Amstrad seriously planned this partnership.
<gallery>
File:Triumph-1907-2.jpg|Triumph Motor Car
File:Triumph Spitfire Mk II.jpg|Triumph Spitfire Mk II
File:2009-triumph-bonneville-3.jpg|Triumph Motorcycle
File:1918triumph.jpg|Triumph Bicycle
File:Triumph leerhuelle blau.jpg|Triumph Records
File:Triumph (BDM)band.JPGjpg|Triumph Recordsrock band
File:Triumph Typewriter.jpg|Triumph Typewriter
File:Triumph (BDM).JPG|Triumph Records
</gallery>
The Triumph brand name is also used by several '''bicycle, motorcycle, and automobile ''' manufacturers. There was also a '''Triumph Records''' company. Triumph is also a canadian classic '''hard rock band'''. Unlikely that Amstrad planned partnerships here, too.
There has been a typewriter manufacturer named Triumph, concerning the CPCs typewriter keyboard, this could have been a reasonable partnership - but that company was renamed to Adler long ago, so for that partnership, the boot message should have been ''Adler 64K Microcompter''.---
<br style="clear:both;">[[File:Triumph-typewriter-logo.png|left|128px]][[File:Adler-typewriter-logo.png|right|200px]]There was also has been a historic '''typewriter manufacturer''' named Triumph Records , concerning the CPCs typewriter keyboard, this could have been a reasonable partnership - but that companyfusioned with Adler long time ago, so for that partnership, the boot message should have been ''Triumph-Adler 64K Microcompter''. Actually, the typewriter relation isn't too unlikely. The brand name ''TA Triumph is also -Adler'' has been used to produce various '''computer hardware''' from 1971 up to today, spanning a canadian hard rock bandrange of electronic typewriters, Alphatronic PCs, and modern laser printers. More info on the company history is found on their webpage http://www.triumph-adler.de/ (german) Note: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_(TWN), the bicycle/motorcycle companies originally had the same source than the computer/typerwriter business. <br style="clear:both;"> ---- There is also an Triumph Electronics company in USA, though according to their About Us page, ''Triumph Electronics incorporated in 2007'' (thus it can't ''cannot''' have anything to do with the CPC), interstingly, they say ''We stand out from the crowd by our professionalism'' (though as by 2010, the About Us page still doesn't work yet with Opera, nor mainstream browsers like Firefox or Internet Explorer).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph for more possible meanings.
 
[[Category:CPC_related_companies]]