30 Jun
2007
30 Jun
'07
5:04 p.m.
Thinking about it more, my statement about peripherals
might be
stretching it. I don't *recall* any problems with 3rd party
peripherals like modems and whatnot, but I am not 100% certain. The
I think the Apricots had pretty standard RS232 and Centronics ports, so
there shouldn't have been much problem
F1 doesn't look like it has compatible connectors
for standard IBM PC
peripherals, but ISTR that the Xi *did* have ISA slots. The F1 wasn't
intended to be expanded very much -- if you wanted expansion, it was
expected you would buy the Xi. At least that's how our store pitched
it.
At least some of the early Apricots had DIN41612 connectors (64 pin in a
2-row hosuing) for the expansion slots -- 2 or 3 slots depending on which
version of the mainboard you had. The signals were pretty much the 8086
bus, and thus similar to ISA.
Somewhere I have a 16 bit ISA card that has a DIN41612 connector on it,
and which lets you use an Apricot expansion board in a PC/AT machine. The
reverse would not be possible, since the Apricot case was too small to
fit ISA boards in.
-tony