My first computer was an Amstrad PCW, and I think it had 512 k of RAM. The font looks about right. It had a dedicated word-processing keyboard, but it could run as a PC with CP/M. It had logo and a version of BASIC. You could buy games for it, even modem if you so desired. 3 inch (not 3.5) double-sided floppy disks but the reader was single-sided so you had to flip them over:
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On 6 February 2016 at 16:25, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
My first computer was an Amstrad PCW, and I think it had 512 k of RAM. The font looks about right. It had a dedicated word-processing keyboard, but it could run as a PC with CP/M. It had logo and a version of BASIC. You could buy games for it, even modem if you so desired. 3 inch (not 3.5) double-sided floppy disks but the reader was single-sided so you had to flip them over:
The BASIC was quite good. I wrote an invoicing program for my father. It supported some kind of table structure and even had indexes.
The Amstrad survived in the filthy environment of a foundry so must have been well made!
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