Subj : Amstrad PPC512 and BBS
To   : Alastair Frankland
From : Bob Worm
Date : Thu Aug 21 2025 14:32:00

  Re: Amstrad PPC512 and BBS
  By: Alastair Frankland to Bob Worm on Thu Aug 21 2025 06:19:06

Hi, Alastair.

 > What did you think of Amstrad
 > PPC512? Take care and lovely to hear from you! tatty bye

To be honest I had to look it up - in my head I thought it might have been one of those desktop things that looked like a Mac and basically did word processing but no! It's a luggable!

That looks very cool and I can see why you are so keen on it.

 > Although this message is written for you on Windows XP
 > Hyperterminal, dialup, it is just as much fun.

I've also just started using a Windows XP netbook that my parents had no more use for. Man, it was effort to get a CP437 friendly terminal program downloaded onto that thing. Between out of date root certificates, lack of modern SSL / TLS ciphers and most of the good software being on github or sourceforge which requires SSL... I try to avoid browsing on it, to be fair, as it's probably vulnerable to a huge number of exploits.

I'd love to get a bit more happening on it, though. I don't know how old it is (it tells me flash player was last updated in 2013) but it's a lovely small form factor with about 7 hours of battery capacity. I don't know how it's still holding charge but it is.

The weekend is almost here - hope you have a good one!

BobW
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