On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 at 10:58:03, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
<Amstrad 1640)
>Also in order to install a third-party HDD (usually a Seagate ST-251-0)
>you had to literally use a can opener (for the shielding inside) and
>chop a couple of millimetres from the faceplate.
I had no problems with the two hard diskstalled. The only idiocy was
that the hidden internal slot for the HD interface had no case fixing -
it just wobbled about.
> The hardest thing to do though was to install a 8087 and/or replace
>the EGA ROM (to put Greek characters then... no ega2.cpi back then).
>
>It was very misunderstood as a machine (everybody was making fun of it
>as it looked fake -compared to the metal behemoths of the time-) but
>it really showed the shape of things to come in PC technology.
>As computers stood, it (like all PCs of the time) was a piece of s$$$$
>however as PCs go, it was rather well made and very compatible. (Plus
>because it was so difficult to upgrade made me a lot of Drachmae ;-) )
>
Absolutely, For the time it was brilliant, and cheap.
It started the trend.
Pity The QL didn't start another.
>
>>
>> This 1640 had probably been subject to -exactly- that treatment.
>> The on-board chip based 'soft' fuse trips.
>
>Normally these would reset by themselves after a while unless the user
>repeatedly gave it the on/off treatment...
Only if one switched off on the monitor, switched off from the wall
socket, switch on from the monitor, wait for the LED flash on/off,
switch off from the monitor, switch on from the wall then switch on
from the monitor - phew.
No wonder people thought it was broken.
Tony
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