Amstrad PCW 8256/8512

On 29 Apr 2007 at 21:56, roger pugh wrote: That's it! For *only* somewhere between $1200 and $1800 (1985 dollars), you could have a slow PC that could sort of run PC mono text applications on your Mac. I miss the wackiness of the old PC days when nothing was too silly to get funded. I do recall being taken to lunch sometime in 1984 and being pitched to join a firm back around then. What was carefully fished out of a briefcase was a mock-up of a very small laptop computer--barely big enough in footprint to contain the keys of a keyboard and VERY slim. I was excitedly told that some genius had figured out how to cram the electronics for a PC into it. When I asked where the battery went, I got the reply "we haven't figured that out yet". I passed on the "opportunity" and AFAIK, the venture never went anywhere. Cheers, Chuck