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   Bob Worm to Alastair Frankland   
   Amstrad PPC512 and BBS   
   21 Aug 25 14:32:00   
   
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     Re: Amstrad PPC512 and BBS   
     By: Alastair Frankland to Bob Worm on Thu Aug 21 2025 06:19:06   
      
   Hi, Alastair.   
      
    > What did you think of Amstrad   
    > PPC512? Take care and lovely to hear from you! tatty bye   
      
   To be honest I had to look it up - in my head I thought it might have been one   
   of those desktop things that looked like a Mac and basically did word   
   processing but no! It's a luggable!   
      
   That looks very cool and I can see why you are so keen on it.   
      
    > Although this message is written for you on Windows XP   
    > Hyperterminal, dialup, it is just as much fun.   
      
   I've also just started using a Windows XP netbook that my parents had no more   
   use for. Man, it was effort to get a CP437 friendly terminal program   
   downloaded onto that thing. Between out of date root certificates, lack of   
   modern SSL / TLS ciphers and most of the good software being on github or   
   sourceforge which requires SSL... I try to avoid browsing on it, to be fair,   
   as it's probably vulnerable to a huge number of exploits.   
      
   I'd love to get a bit more happening on it, though. I don't know how old it is   
   (it tells me flash player was last updated in 2013) but it's a lovely small   
   form factor with about 7 hours of battery capacity. I don't know how it's   
   still holding charge but it is.   
      
   The weekend is almost here - hope you have a good one!   
      
   BobW   
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