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From: boutell@toffee.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Amstrad PPC 640
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Date: 14 Jan 90 17:02:53 GMT
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Has anyone out there encountered this machine? I'm using one, and it's
proven to be pretty much unsinkable, so I thought a plug was in order.
Essentially the machine answers the question, "what do most cheap
laptop designs really want to be?" Amstrad's answer is "semilaptop-" the
machine candidly admits you wouldn't want to look at an unbacklit
LCD and run on C batteries all the time, it just has the capability.
What impressed me was its ability to come through a Delaware rainstorm
intact. (And this state is WET!)

Thing is, though, I haven't run into any other users. Anyone else got
one or want to trade notes? My pet peeve is the disk- switching bug-
it won't recognize a new disk in the A drive until you read for a 
moment from the B drive, and vice versa. Highly annoying when asked for
Command.Com- I usually put the latter in a small C: ramdrive to
defeat this problem.

 
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