5 Apr
1997
5 Apr
'97
1:39 a.m.
William's description of the goodies at the
Hamfest made me envious...
Is there a listing somewhere of these meets? I sure would love to
go to a few.
Also: anyone out there with any parts resources/docs/specs for an
Amstrad PC6400DD? Got one in very good shape at a local yard sale, but
am unsure just exactly how to go about fixing it up. From looking at it,
seems to resemble a PCJR clone. Any help or information would be
appreciated.
Never heard of that model number, might be the US version of the PC1640DD
which was an 8086 AFAIK, with 640K and dual 5.25" floppy disk drives.
Expansion was through standard 8bit XT slots, if you're lucky someone
might have stuck a hard card in it. The other popular upgrade was
swapping the CPU for a NEC V20. The PSU was combined into the CGA monitor
so unless it has the monitor with it you'll have to chuck together a
small PSU for it. The keyboard connector was non-standard and ISTR there
were keyboards at the time which had AT/XT/Amstrad switches so the
keyboard wiring maybe non-standard too.
The other alternative is that it's the PPC640DD which was a portable 8086
with a fullsized keyboard and a non-backlit CGA LCD screen occupying
about half the length on the right hand side (or was it LHS =\ ). The
machine had dual 3.5" floppies and a built in 2400baud modem, ISTR there
was one 8bit expansion slot. There was at least one upgrade company in
the UK that would supply backlights and HDs for these machines but that
was about 4 or 5 years ago.
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