Our Ferranti PPC-20 has 128k RAM, two 640k floppy discs and cost £3250.00 in November 1983. Ferranti made the transition from mini to microcomputers with this Argus Pro- Personal Computer (PPC)

 

Model No: MOE 2 and has a serial  number of 6136-1F
  
Technical specifications
Processor: 8MHz Intel 8086
Memory: 128k expandable to 896k.
Screen: 12in green on black, 25 lines of 80 characters.
Keyboard: Low profile full ASCII, numeric keypad and 13 function keys and a command  key that doubles their effect.
Disks: Two 640k floppy disk drives

Interfaces: Three RS232 serial interfaces . 
Operating systems: F-COS86, will run CP/M-86 and MS-DOS software. 
Languages: M-Basic, P-Basic, Cis-Cobol, MS-Pascal.
Dimensions: Main unit 178mm high and wide and 433mm deep. 
                                  Monitor 344mm high, 315mm wide and 330mm deep. 
                                  Keyboard 65mm high, 420mm wide and 210mm deep.
Total weight: 13kg (main unit) 8.5kg (monitor) 1 .8kg (keyboard) . 

Our unit is complete with the original monitor and keyboard and was very kindly donated by Ian Marchant

 

The other 5 pictures are from  a Benchtest in Personal Computer World's November 1983 issue

Ferranti Argus PPC-20 Manuals:

Item	Manufacturer	Date
IBM - International Technical Support Centers - An Introduction to Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (APPC)	IBM	Nov 1986
Amstrad PPC 512 & PPC 640 Personal Portable Computer Service Manual	Amstrad	1988
Amstrad Portable PPC 512/640 User Instructions		1988

Ferranti Argus PPC-20 Articles:

Item	Manufacturer	Date
Stewart Logan: LEO III at Ravenscraig		Nov 2021

Magazines RELATED to Ferranti Argus PPC-20 in our Library

Item	Manufacturer	Date
Personal Computer World - November 1983		Nov 1983
Practical Computing - February 1988		Feb 1988
Personal Computer World - February 1988		1 Feb 1988
Byte October 1988		Oct 1988
PCW Focus - August 1989		1 Aug 1989

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Item	Manufacturer	Date
Ferranti Atlas Computer	Ferranti	1961
Ferranti Argus 100	Ferranti	1963
Ferranti FM1600 B	Ferranti	1965
Ferranti Argus 700	Ferranti	1973
Ferranti 1600E	Ferranti	1973
Ferranti Advance 86	Ferranti	December 1983
Ferranti Model No PC31	Ferranti	1986