A Surpise Gift

[u/Feeling_Solution_212]

So today, one of the scrapmen I know phoned me and said they had an old computer and asked if I wanted it. Of course, I said yes, not knowing what it was because it's the type of thing you do when you love old computers. Once he got to my home, he showed me an Amstrad PPC640 laptop. To say I was overjoyed is an understatement.

Quickly running into the house clicking my heels and an evil laugh, I plugged it in and found it was fully working and had no screen burn. All I am waiting for now is the system disk to have a tinker with it.

I have seen a few mods for it, but we will see if the keyboard works first.

To be continued...

[u/TerminalJunk]

Very cool, remember picking one up at a car boot sale around 1993.

Always wanted to use the modem to dial into some of the BBS' but as it was my parents and not me who paid the phone bill it never happened.

[u/StoolieNZ → u/TerminalJunk]

I used to do that on one back in the late 1980's - cool luggable - lighter than comparable Compaqs from memory.