I have recently come across a nice Amstrad PPC640 portable (but heavy!) computer, with the
case and the whole lot..even a power supply, which is often missing from this kind of
stuff and it can take years of going round boot sales to get replacements with the more
unusual ones...Upon plugging it in to the mains and switching on, everything seems to be
fine..it starts buzzing and the screen comes up with "Please Wait...."
It then scans drives a and b and lets out three short bleeps..I thought these may be due
to it needing a boot disk, as these things have no hard disk so obviously need
something..both drives a and b are 31/2" 720k, so I made some MS-DOS 6.22 boot disks
on my 386 using 720k disks..obviously they did nothing in drive b, but when I put them in
driveA I sti;ll got my bleeps, but it started to read from the disk..the screen went blank
so I waited assuming it would ask for the date and time, or come up with command..but
nothing - a blank screen...but when I typed in B: or A: followed by [enter] it procceed to
try and scan that particular drive.
I have no idea why this is and need help from someone more farmiliar with the machine..but
just for a guess I'd say if this machine was made in 1988, Dos 6 ismore recent than
the portable, so I'd need probably dos 3.3 or something. Can anyone help me with the
laptop or getting dos 3.3? I'm totally stuck!