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  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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