== A Surgical Guide To The Amstrad Notepad Computer ==
This page is based on Hans-Jürgen Böhling's "surgical guide to the Amstrad NC". The original document is avaliabe here: [http://home.arcor.de/h.boehling/nc100.htm]
=== Amstrad Notepad Computer - What is it? ===
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How to get the Firmware Number ?
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Wenn === How to get the Firmware Number? === When you are in the main Menu (text editor, calculater, calender) push the
secret-button and the system-settings menu appears, the version number
will be shown in the first line of the sceen. I have a german NC100 and the
firmware number is v1.06.
=== PCMCIA Memory Cards-------------------===
A battery buffered PCMCIA SRAM-Memory Card will preserve you from data loss
allows you to create a file with BBC-BASIC bigger than 1024 bytes. This is
because BBC-BASIC allocates all available memory on startup except 1024
bytes. The maxinun sice maximum size to use with the NC100 is up to 1M byte.
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Before disassembling the Notepad you should save all your data! Then put
[[File:NC100_HowToOpen.png]]
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What is inside?
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