Talk:Amstrad PPC

Backlighting

I've edited the description to read Green LED backlit rather than not backlit, the displays in the PPC512 and PPC640 were illuminated with green LEDs and a diffusion layer however these LEDs were very prone to failure and it's common to buy machines with all the LEDs dead so it could easily be mistaken for a non-backlit device. Hideki (talk) 10:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

I have the service manual and it does not show any LED backlight. Only four LEDs are specified (D111-D114) corresponding to the four indicators on the front of the computer. HungryHorace (talk) 21:38, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

This was the first computer I ever owned, and I can confirm the screen was not backlit. Amazing what we used to call portable back then! Leigh (talk) 08:19, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Picture

Oh my! I used to have one of these. It was my first IBM compatible. Does anyone have a picture? 195.242.196.140 06:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC) josh

PC20/PC200

So the PC200 (black) was sold in Britain and the PC20 (white) overseas? What was the reason for this decision? 2fort5r (talk) 18:11, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Date?

curiously, the article says nothing about when the PPC was produced or its time in the market 91.132.141.80 (talk) 09:10, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

"does not support today's floppy disk drives"

What, please, are "today's" floppy disk drives? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.176.169.214 (talk) 12:30, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Display size

I was looking for exact specs of the STN display and it seems that its rather a 7.9" one and not a 9" as written on the Internet elsewhere - but maybe they meant 9" tube-like equivalent. The LCD panel I got measures about 160x120mm, for a 0.25x0.60mm pixel at 640x200 resolution. Can anybody re-confirm? I am not able to power the screen to measure the active aperture, so these are just rough and rounded figures. 77.240.102.234 (talk) 14:45, 18 April 2023 (UTC)