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PPC512

Ruud

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I asked this in the PC thread but no reaction at all so I give it a try here.

I know I will get a PPC512 as Christmas present (I know because I bought it myself) and I'm looking for information about it. I already found Amstrad XT Pages and that covers a lot of info. But I'm more interested in not-common info like tips & tricks, special software and hardware expansions.

Thank you in advance!
 
The last time I poked at a PPC512 (15 years ago?) I recall that even then the expansions were impossible to find and everyone was telling me to just pull the floppy drives for an Amiga and chuck it. Otherwise it's a PC clone that can take a buttload of C cells and gives 45 minutes (I've done this) run time.
 
They had a parallel port and I think a serial port. You can program them from BASIC. They are OK to tinker with. I had one many years ago and gave it to the neighbor's kids with a copy of QBASIC.EXE so he could learn to program with it. i wired him up a parallel port to LED adapter so he could turn LEDs on and off.
 
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