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     Re: Amstrad PPC512 and BBS   
     By: Alastair Frankland to Bob Worm on Mon Aug 25 2025 07:12:37   
      
   Hi, Alastair.   
      
    > thanks for looking it up!   
      
   Thanks for bringing it to my attention :)   
      
    > Now you can connect an sd card etc. but that route is expensive.   
      
   Yes, I feel like the first time I learned about Gotek they were reasonably   
   priced but out of stock everywhere - I thought maybe I'd ask the wife to pick   
   me one up for Christmas or a birthday, the usual thing I do when I see   
   something that I want but can't bring myself to part with the cash just on a   
   whim. Then they went up... Looking again now they seem to be cheap again so   
   fingers crossed for Christmas...   
      
    > Do you think that keeping to the opriginal as it was intended   
    > has a certain charm?   
      
   Definitely - my Acorn and Beeb are both original, though I do have an SD card   
   pretending to be a hard disk inside the Acorn, but you can't see that from the   
   outside. I do now have a quandary as the floppy drive is a bit "iffy" -   
   usually reads, wouldn't trust it to write and seems to rub the magnetic   
   pigment off some disks (though that might just be disks getting old). I have   
   another drive I could put in but it wouldn't be original.   
      
   I should probably try aligning the heads before I give up... look out...   
      
   BobW   
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