Date   : Thu, 09 Jul 1992 14:02:05 GMT
From   : mcsun!uknet!warwick!dcs.warwick.ac.uk!news@uunet.uu.net (John Rawnsley)
Subject: Re: Any AMSTRAD users out there?

In article <1992Jul8.142257.1@woods.ulowell.edu> welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
writes:
>I sent email to Plane to clarify some points, because of still-
>confusing info.  Note that in particular, I am talking about the PCW8256
>Personal Word Processor, sold on the American market.  In the meantime, 
>here is some food for thought.
>
>A lot of this messing around pertains both directly and indirectly to
>how much disk space is available, where, in what format.  I.e.,
>maybe I would not need a B drive to gain more space, if I had a
>communications interface so I could upload some of the stuff from my
>A drive to some other machine.  But it is probably fair to say that
>few people have modem connections to their Amstrad.
>
>What I am now suggesting is something I would have considered illegal
>a few years ago; it may still be impractical now.  That is, that there
>be a depository (reachable by telnet) which has the Locomotive and
>CP/M binaries;...

Definitely illegal. Both Amstrad and Locomotive Software are still trading
so it would be a violation of copyright at the least.

Amstrad still market a PCW in the UK, now with a daisy-wheel printer and
a 3.5" drive. There is a version of LocoScript for PCs and Locomotive make
a cable to fit the UK style expansion slot directly to link to the parallel
port of a PC and transfer files directly.

There are also some small companies in the UK making add-ons for PCWs such
as hard drives, external floppies in most sizes, software to read/write 
other formats etc. Locomotive are a very helpful company you might want 
to contact directly. I don't have their address to hand, but I can dig
it out if anyone requests it.


John


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