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Cyberdeck em um Amstrad PPC 640.

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/01/09/cyberdeck-em-um-amstrad-ppc-640/

#MundoRetro #amstrad #Cyberdeck #PPC640 #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi4

Cyberdeck em um Amstrad PPC 640. - Retrópolis

Fui pesquisar outro dia o que é um cyberdeck, e achei essa definição, que está no subreddit relacionado: A palavra vem do livro de William Gibson "Neuromancer" (1984) - cunhando a palavra ciberespaço e o nascimento do gênero cyberpunk. Ele apresenta descrições muito gráficas de hacking e realidade virtual (se você já viu uma cena

Retrópolis - A cidade dos clássicos

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Daniele Verducci 🧉Nov 20, 2025

@hp wow, well, I've got a little pile of floppy disks on my desk, like 30cm away from me 😅
I don't use them daily, I'm just messy and leave a lot of stuff everywhere 😅
The nearest one (the first of the pile) has a lot of handwritten stuff on it, but none reflecting its content. It's probably mac-formatted because I was repairing a #Powerbook 170 last time I used them. The second one, btw, is definitely something for my #amstrad #ppc640 because it has a piece of tape on the right hole to make it recognized as 720k, and the amstrad is the only 720k machine I've got around...

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Amstrad PPC — вспоминаем удивительные персоналки из 80-х

1987-й — год, когда мир находился в шатком равновесии, но в воздухе уже витал запах перемен, предвещающих конец целой эпохи. Человечество стремительно двигалось в сторону цифровой революции. Компания IBM представила стандарт VGA-графики, а Apple анонсировала Macintosh II, открыв новую эру пользовательских интерфейсов. В том же году корпорация Amstrаd разработала очень необычный компьютер PPC — машину с, прямо скажем, нестандартным форм-фактором и любопытными техническими характеристиками.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/894958/

#Compaq_Portable_III #Toshiba_T1000 #Amstrad #CPC #PC1512 #PPC512 #PPC640 #PPC_Organiser #ruvds_статьи

Amstrad PPC — вспоминаем удивительные персоналки из 80-х

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Daniele Verducci 🧉Jan 26, 2025

Look mom!!! No cables!!!

Surfing the #internet at blazing 9600 baud with my #homebrew #wifi #serial modem! Finally with a proper db9 to db25 adapter instead of janky jumper wires.
Also, I'm running on #batteries !
I could literally pick it up and go use it everywhere...
...there's a table 😅 I mean, you cannot use it on your laps. Ask me how I know 🪨

#amstrad #ppc640 #portable #computer #IBM #PCcompatible #dos #terminal #retrocomputing

Daniele Verducci 🧉Jan 24, 2025

Trying to boot #elks #linux on my 8088 #portable #computer with 640k ram and 720k #floppydisk ( #amstrad #ppc640 )

...it's not going well D:
It's searching files over the end of the disk ?!?

#retrocomputing #unix #ibmpc #ibmcompatible

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Daniele Verducci 🧉Dec 31, 2024

My #Amstrad #ppc640 has an old-style 25 pin #rs232 port. Unfortunately yesterday I couldn't source a #db9 to #db25 #serial adapter, so I had to...ehm...improvise 😅
It seems that only Rx, Tx and ground are needed for it to work!

#retrocomputing #wifimodem #zimodem

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Daniele Verducci 🧉Dec 5, 2024

It seems to work fine. It's meant to run on 10 (TEN!!) C batteries, for a total of 15v. Its wall wart is a 12v one, so I think the higher voltage on batteries is meant to account for the internal resistance. I used 3 18650 lithium batteries, so the voltage when full charged is lower than 10 full charged alkalines, and with the batteries almost empty should be about the same. Lithium batteries also have a lower internal resistance, so I believe it will be fine.

#amstrad #ppc640 #ppc512 #portable #computer #retrocomputing #IBMPcCompatible

Daniele Verducci 🧉Dec 5, 2024

Just did a definitely #janky and very unsafe, but also perfectly reversible modification to my #amstrad #ppc640
Now let's see if it will burn my house down 😅

Daniele Verducci Jun 18, 2023

Trying to extract an useable #video #signal from my #amstrad #ppc640

#oscilloscope #dos #cga #retrocomputing