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| Alan Sugar decides to enhance the PCW 8256 and takes another step into the world of the small management computer. Once the long-awaited companion model of the great CPC 6128 [[es:8256|PCW 8256]] is on the market, and in view of the success obtained by the latter, the British firm decides to "improve what is present" and launches a model more advanced: the PCW 8512. With it, the main limitation of the "256" is eliminated: its capacity to store programs and data. With a second disk drive and a -refreshing- 256K expansion for the virtual disk. M (internal RAM), it was achieved that, in comparison, the 512 was a device with which one could already work more freely. The possibilities it offered were, naturally, more than those of the smallest of the family, the 256. And it is that there was already memory to be able to work. | Alan Sugar decides to enhance the PCW 8256 and takes another step into the world of the small management computer. Once the long-awaited companion model of the great CPC 6128 [[en:8256|PCW 8256]] is on the market, and in view of the success obtained by the latter, the British firm decides to "improve what is present" and launches a model more advanced: the PCW 8512. With it, the main limitation of the "256" is eliminated: its capacity to store programs and data. With a second disk drive and a -refreshing- 256K expansion for the virtual disk. M (internal RAM), it was achieved that, in comparison, the 512 was a device with which one could already work more freely. The possibilities it offered were, naturally, more than those of the smallest of the family, the 256. And it is that there was already memory to be able to work. |
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| Externally, drive off, the 512 hardly differs from the "little" 256. The color is a bit darker, the labels tell us that we are dealing with a 512 and, most importantly, the disk drive, which is located under the the first, right where the 256 has the plate that indicates that the monitor is a green phosphor. For the rest, everything is exactly the same: printer, monitor and keyboard are the same in the 256, which already have more confirmed reliability. | Externally, drive off, the 512 hardly differs from the "little" 256. The color is a bit darker, the labels tell us that we are dealing with a 512 and, most importantly, the disk drive, which is located under the the first, right where the 256 has the plate that indicates that the monitor is a green phosphor. For the rest, everything is exactly the same: printer, monitor and keyboard are the same in the 256, which already have more confirmed reliability. |
