20 Feb
2003
20 Feb
'03
9:25 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
WHEN did the Victor 9000 (Sirius) come out?
A Quick Google search of "CP/M-86 history Victor 9000" turns up a lot of
Commodore history sites that say that the Vioctor was released "SOMETIME"
in 1982.
Is there ANY documentation anywhere of when it actually came out?
(We do know that the PC was announced in August 1981)
> > We
had several Victor 9000's. They ran CP/M and a proprietary MS-DOS. They
> > had built-in codec. They actually predated the IBM PC back in 1980. They
> WHEN did the Victor 9000 come out?
> I doubt that it was available in 1980, and certainly NOT with MS-DOS, nor
> CP/M-86.
It's my recollection (from past discussions) that the Victor
9000 came out
before the PC (earlier in the year in 1981) and, as Hans states, MS DOS
was adapted to it after the fact. It did not end up being PC compatible,
but MS-DOS compatible.