File:Amstrad PCW 8000 Series Service Manual.pdf

PCW 8256/8512 Personal Computer Word Processor Service Manual, Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc, cover price £8.00. This file is the 42-page scan, with the wide drawings split across images.

There is no separate "PCW 8000 Series" manual; Amstrad documented the 8256 and 8512 in one book, and the same book is also hosted as File:Amstrad PCW 8256 PCW 8512 Service Manual.pdf in a 34-page scan.

The two scans are not identical in content. This one uniquely carries the chassis schematic diagrams and the printer circuit diagrams (pages 36–41). The 34-page scan uniquely carries a cabinet parts list with separate 8256 and 8512 part numbers, and a "Fitting 4 pin CPU PCB" page. Check both before concluding a drawing was never published.

Also contains: safety test and notes to service engineers; a software-errors page; FD1 and FD2 diagnostic flow charts; alignment checks with a CE disk; FD1 and FD2 schematics; the monitor alignment chart, schematics and PCB layout; keyboard circuit diagram; both CPU PCB versions, original and Mk II; the printer mechanical parts list (starred parts are PCW8512 only), exploded drawing and printer PC board; and the monitor/keyboard and main electrical parts lists.

Described in full at Amstrad PCW 8000 Series Service Manual.

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Copyright Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc. Not freely licensed, and not public domain — an earlier version of this page claimed "public domain / no commercial use", which is both wrong and self-contradictory. No licence has ever been granted for redistribution.