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I had one of those Amstrad with green screen in the US. Sold mainly as a word processing system. My dad bought it since we couldn't afford a PC at that time. It
by pkaye 9y ago
I had one of those Amstrad with green screen in the US. Sold mainly as a word processing system. My dad bought it since we couldn't afford a PC at that time. It did its job as a word processor well plus I had a great time digging into the guts of the CP/M operating system. What I really hated was that it had a 3" floppy which were hard to find.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoAh, you probably had a PCW: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/world-leaders-and-twitter.html https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/... Don't let the 3" drives put you off. These days SDcard based "floppy drives" make life a lot easier: https://hackaday.com/2016/02/28/floppy-drive-hides-sd-card-reader/ https://hackaday.com/2016/02/28/floppy-drive-hides-sd-card-r... I have one for my CPC. Note that in the particular case of the CPC464 (not the 664 or 6128) you'll still need the Amstrad DDI disk interface unit, as the base 464 has no disk controller built in.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoGah, wrong link there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW
- pkaye 9y agoYeah that is the one. It eventually failed after many years. I remember typing up the Eliza program in BASIC for it and one of our neighbors kids still has fond memories of playing with it.