They have a built-in keyboard and a monochrome LCD-screen, had either one (S-model) or two (D-model) diskdrives of 720KB and are powered by 10 C-CELL 1.5 volt batteries or external PSU.

The PPC 512 has a NEC V30 processor running on 8 MHz, 512 KiB memory and a full-sized 102-key keyboard with numeric keys. The monochrome display can display MDA or CGA.

The 3 differences between the 2 models are the memory size (PPC640 has 640KiB memory), PPC640 has an onboard modem of 1200 baud and is a darker grey case.

Standard operating system is MS-DOS 3.3 and included was an Organiser.