Subj : Amstrad PPC512 and BBS
To   : Alastair Frankland
From : Bob Worm
Date : Mon Aug 25 2025 17:18:25

  Re: Amstrad PPC512 and BBS
  By: Alastair Frankland to Bob Worm on Mon Aug 25 2025 07:12:37

Hi, Alastair.

 > thanks for looking it up!

Thanks for bringing it to my attention :)

 > Now you can connect an sd card etc. but that route is expensive.

Yes, I feel like the first time I learned about Gotek they were reasonably priced but out of stock everywhere - I thought maybe I'd ask the wife to pick me one up for Christmas or a birthday, the usual thing I do when I see something that I want but can't bring myself to part with the cash just on a whim. Then they went up... Looking again now they seem to be cheap again so fingers crossed for Christmas...

 > Do you think that keeping to the opriginal as it was intended
 > has a certain charm?

Definitely - my Acorn and Beeb are both original, though I do have an SD card pretending to be a hard disk inside the Acorn, but you can't see that from the outside. I do now have a quandary as the floppy drive is a bit "iffy" - usually reads, wouldn't trust it to write and seems to rub the magnetic pigment off some disks (though that might just be disks getting old). I have another drive I could put in but it wouldn't be original.

I should probably try aligning the heads before I give up... look out...

BobW
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