ScuzzBlog: Diaries November 2017 Entry 24th November 2017: Post: 1 The Amstrad ALT-386SX - Bag of Sugar Cute bit of kit this and surprisingly worked straight out of the bag. A quite unusual laptop design which interestingly, for me, offers the best keyboard arrangment of any I have used. Basically because it treats the unit as a typewriter which is the way it should be. So many laptops have a large space between the bottom edge and the keys. Man do I hate that. Incredibly well designed with sleek , smooth , clean lines. All very well presented and appears in good condition. For some reason the hard drive is not making any noise. Also the expanded memory does not seem to be functioning. Added to that the battery is dead. ALT-386SX from 1988 laptop computer using an Intel 80386SX Amstrad ALT-386SX 1MB RAM - Expanded FDD - Floppy 3.5HD 1.4MB HDD - 40MB Not recognised Video - VGA Screen - Backlit 640x480 Keyboard - 85 key internal Ports - 1 x DB-25 Parallel 2 x DE-9 Serial Expansion - 16bit ISA MS-DOS 3.30 So what is in this bag of 'Sugar' An Amstrad Laptop no less Works from the floppy with no hard drive detected. Not really sure if one is fitted OK Green across the screen. Bag it up

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