old date plz - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Jun 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Date: Saturday, June 2, 2001 3:20 am
Subject: Re: old date plz

...
  AFAIK, there was never an internal hard disk for the
PPC640 series 
 -- 
 there's no obvious way to add one, anyway (no internal bus 
 connectors for 
 the controller). So without a boot disk it's not going to do very 
 much.
 Have you tried making an MS-DOS 3.3 boot disk (720K, 3.5") and 
 booting 
 from that? My Amstrad PPC (640K, 2 floppies) boots fine from such 
 a disk 

Actually, when I was working for a company in Sydney (when the PPC512's 
& PPC640's came out), we did manage to interface a drive to 'em, it's a 
*very* tight squeeze, but you can fit them in.

BL

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