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Amstrad PPC640, 1987

First Amstrad portable computer

CPU: NEC V30 (I8088) 8 Mhz
RAM: 640KB, 2x720KB 3.5'' FDD
non-backlit MDA/CGA-compatible LCD
built-in 1200 baud modem
full-size 102-key keyboard with a numeric keypad

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#floppy #vintagegaming

[PhilTgaming]

"what is a computer?' in the book is crazy. Love old technology!!

[Michaelebills]

I had one of those in 1991... Fun days...

[BunrithViwatthanak]

Why are old Technologies are easy, fun, nostalgic, and satisfying 😭

[KeefWithNoTeef]

That keyboard looks so crispy! I had no idea how much cool tech like this was available when I built my first Windows 3.11 Desktop PC from Tiger Direct in the early 90s.

I wish I could find all my old DOS games on floppy discs.

[DigitallySickAnalog-nc]

Man... Tech had style in the 80s and 90s. Style + Vibe.

[djsnackcakes]

Imagine a laptop that size with modern hardware. The battery would only last like 5 minutes but you could pack some serious power into it

[PintaoLoko]

I've been watching your collection. It's marvelous! They last for decades and nowadays a regular keyboard barely lasts 5 years. Congrats!

[juancarlossanchez]

Era algo extraordinario poder llevarte un ordenador asequible a casa en los 80

[ИгорьНестеров-пх]

У ранних лэптопов и мобильников есть общая черта - у каждой модели оригинальный и неповторимый дизайн

[Wendysburger-xzbt]

You know it’s old when it tells you what a computer is

[Xaltar_]

Those boot sounds, squinting at the horrible display while trying to play Commander Keen, fun times :)

[martincontreras]

Un increíble viaje al pasado. Fascinante video gracias por compartir estos productos míticos🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[Nathan-mupz]

That music set such an amazing vibe that the computer completely destroyed when it booted the game 😂

[kjamison]

My first computer was an Amstrad CPC6128 with a colour monitor, not a green monitor. 1986. I bought it for cash, along with the disk based game Cauldron and the shop knocked £20 off the price. I brought it home on the bus. I carried the monitor and my sister carried the keyboard part in its separate box. I still have about two dozen 3” disks for it although I did buy a 3.5” disk drive and went for the cheaper disks that could store more 720k instead of the 2x 178k of the 3” disks.

I made a plug in ROM board from veroboard and could read and write to IBM PC formatted disks.

I bought cheap cassette games and transferred them to disks.

It saw me all through university, and more until, in 1996 I bought my first Intel PC by ICL.

I still have the Amstrad. I gave the ICL away.

[towin]

HERMOSO DISEÑO, VALE CADA DOLAR!!!!
QUE CUESTA!!!!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[jaredconnor]

Can't even imagine being a kid and being able to play on one of those. It must've been magical where everything seems cool and advanced.

[cranialvisions]

Remember WebTV? I had one a long time ago...you could connect your TV to the Internet

[LeonScottKennedy-ev]

I'm still amazed by the 100 year old people alive today. To have seen the world evolved in their eyes. From having these megabyte floppy disks, to smartphones. From the 1970s scare of 8 bit computers and machines replacing everyone to 2020s scare of A.I. replacing artists, writers and employees.

[lucasf.azevedo]

Simplesmente incrível, nasci em 95, nunca tinha visto um desses, legal

[buckerprados]

Yo lo tengo, con el hice mi trabajo de fin de carrera de biofísica, una simulación de crecimiento bacteriano en un sustrato. Que tiempos 😂😂😂