The PPC512 and PPC640 were both released in 1987 and were the successors to the PC1512 and PC1640 desktop computers.

Facilitated with a built-in keyboard and a monochrome LCD screen (MDA or CGA), these two computers had either a singular or multiple diskette drives and could be powered on by ten 1,5V batteries. The machine could also be supplied of electricity via en external power supply. The PPC640 had more memory than the PPC512, with 640 KiB. The PPC640 also came with a 1200 baud modem (which the PPC512 did not possess).

The PPC series was standard delivered with the MS-DOS operating system (version 3.3) and the 'Organiser' softwarepackage.