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Video taken of a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 120MHz laptop, I just got this yesterday. Loading Windows 98 you can't really see the cursor moving only in it's start and end locations, or a flashing cursor in dos in barely discernable as flashing. Any ideas, or is this what screens were like back in...

Hi All, I bought this keyboard with a PC1640 and it's now back on ebay, but I thought I would share a few pics as I found it quite interesting. The Amstrad has it's own keyboard specification (I do not believe compatible with other XTs), things like mouse commands go through it. However here is...

Greetings, Here is a video I have made documenting the upgrade of a 1987 Amstrad PC1640. I grew up with these machines, have had a long absense but a very happy rediscovery, finding them to be very amenable to being upgraded. So here I fit an XTIDE and CompactFlash card, a Gotek, and...

Hi Folks, I am looking to get an old IBM 2168 back on it's feet. It was operational and then it's PSU started to need 'pump' for 30secs or so to build up enough head of steam to completely power on the machine. Disassembling everything I came across what looks like a dodgy capacitor on the...

I have picked up a nice PC1640, but unfortunately I am finding that only one axis of mouse input is fully working, vertically. If I pull the Amstrad mouse left or right horizontally the pointer kind of judders left and right a few pixels back and forth (buttons work fine). I have tried a...