On Saturday 11 November 2006 16:02, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-11-11 at 11:26 -0500, Ed McCanless wrote:
On Saturday 11 November 2006 06:40, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I do... I have my Amstrad PC 512 in working order ;-)
Now that's one I'm not familiar with. And, it's good to see that I got thru with the new address.
They were quite popular here in Spain. British made, and frowned upon by experts because the PSU was inside the monitor, had no fan, and the video was on board, so some upgrades were very dificult.
But it sported a fast 8086, true 16 bits bus, running at 8 Mhz.
Mine had two disketes and 512 KB, CGA mono graphics. Later I added a 32MB HD on card, plus a termally regulated fan I designed myself.
Buddy of mine in Stuttgart, Germany had one. Brilliant computer for the time, especially compared to my poky Apple IIe. Of course what really blew me away was his later Amiga 500, on which I did stuff that I couldn't ever imagine doing in Windows for several years. But, now we all have AMD/Intel systems and run X on top of a truly brilliant kernel. :) -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com a turn signal is a statement, not a request --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org