Date   : Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:17:39 +0100
From   : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: Free Stuff Tranche 1 (Sheffield)

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <y2gd8834d21004070205i22ca1727q31bc1f1c6e54f4a1@...
> m>, Alex Taylor <zeem.uk@...> writes
> 
>> I'm quite interested in the Amstrad PCW, as I have a bizarre obsession
>> with these machines, 
> 
> They were very well designed and sold at a remarkably low price.  Given
> the low quality of most of the internals, I'm surprised they lasted more
> than a couple of years.  

Yes, and from what I've read, the software was extremely reliable too, 
with very few bugs.

> My 77-year old uncle still uses his, I had to
> fit a new drive belt for him about 2 yrs ago.

Excellent. If it still does exactly what you want, no need to get rid 
of it. I wonder how many hundreds of these have been thrown out just 
because the disk drive belt disintegrated :-(