Not quite a classic, but...

Car boot sale (flea market) yesterday. Someone wanted 80 pounds (about $125 US) for an Amstrad NC200 laptop. Manual is copyright 1992, CE mark on case dated 1993, so not quite a classic, but... Rather a nice machine - screen looked like about 80*8 (I didn't count) or 80*10 characters, all pixels addressable. Processor probably Z80 (*) - the manual wasn't very informative, and the owner wouldn't let me dismantle it :-( Has a strange custom spreadsheet, a word processor, a VT52 emulator and a port of BBC BASIC in ROM, and 128K bytes of RAM. Since the owner wouldn't take offers, I didn't buy it - L80 is far too high; I would have offered L50 absolute max - can anybody tell me what I've missed, and what sort of market price it has (I'd guess thrift store $10, Ebay $100 but I don't know) (Owner's daughter pointed out that another potential purchaser or two had looked at it and said it was v. cheap. Since they lost interest as soon as I told them it wasn't PC compatible, I didn't read too much into that. Heck, you can get a 386 laptop for L80 without difficulty...) Philip. (*) I finally found that the port of BBC BASIC includes a Z80 assembler instead of the usual 6502. Thus my guess as to CPU. BASIC ran "FOR A=1 TO 10000:NEXT" in 6.75 seconds as measured on the internal clock, so I'd guess at 4 MHz, but that's just guesswork... ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. Power Technology Centre, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottingham, NG11 0EE, UK Tel: +44 (0)115 936 2000 http://www.powertech.co.uk **********************************************************************