Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!garfield!charles1
From: charles1@garfield.MUN.EDU (Charles Loader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: anyone heard of "Amstrad" pc clone?
Message-ID: <5033@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 88 23:30:14 GMT
References: <401500bd.14dc3@gogol> <5605@naakka.tut.fi>
Reply-To: charles1@garfield.UUCP (Charles Loader)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <5605@naakka.tut.fi> pv@korppi.tut.fi (Vuorimaa Petri Kalevi) writes:
>From article <401500bd.14dc3@gogol>, by wagner@procase.UUCP (Mark Wagner):
>> 
>> So specificially: has anyone heard of a pc clone called "Amstrad"
>
>The biggest problem was that Amstrad PC is compatible
>with NOTHING! It has it's own mouse and so on ...
>The man at shop even claimed that one cannot put
>normal 3.5" disk drive inside the machine. You have to use
>some special version (I didn't believe him for that :-)
>
>Anyway, it's cheap as toys usually are!


The Amstrad 1640 is a compact XT clone. Fairly fast 8 MHz 8086.

We have used one in our general office no for about 3 years without a
problem. All software that should run does. The Herc. display is very
good and the mouse works fine when needed.

Currently the machine is running MSDOS troff/tbl/eqn etc. using the
EROFF package from Elan. Much of the output is mathematical text but
the machine seems manage just fine, running at about the same speed
as the mainframe under normal daytime load. (One nice thing about
the 1640 is the absence of a cooling fan ... runs almost silently
... what a pleasure!)

My brother has a PPC portable. The portable runs a little faster than the
desk version. Seems to run all the standard software. 

                                      C. E. Loader
			              Chemistry Dept.