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Amstrad PPC512

Amstrad PC · 1987

The first laptop-shaped PC most British buyers ever handled: a full keyboard, a supertwist LCD, two floppy drives and ten C-cells, with a modem socket on the back. It is not a laptop — it is far too heavy to use on one — but it runs for hours on shop batteries and folds shut, which in 1987 was remarkable at the price. The screen hinge is the usual break.

As catalogued

Maker
Amstrad
CPU
NEC V30-8
Memory
512K
Styles
one drive, two drives
Regions
UK, Europe
Chassis
luggable with a fold-up LCD and a handle, run from ten C cells
OS
MS-DOS 3.3

Chips

2
CPU
NEC V30
FPU
Intel 8087

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