16 Jun
1997
16 Jun
'97
8:50 p.m.
The Victor 9000 sounds like a machine sold in Australia and perhaps Europe
as the ACT Sirius and coexisted for a time with the IBM PC because of a
shortage of the latter. Chuck Peddle (spelling?) was the originator of the
Sirius.
The ACT company I think was British and later changed it's name to Apricot.
Or am I completely on the wrong track?
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From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn(a)crl.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Victor 9000
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 1997 10:45 AM
At 11:50 PM 6/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
drives
So what exactly is a Victor 9000???
Just another PC clone?
Not a clone, but similar. Max RAM was 768K, came with a Floppy Drive as
standard (IIRC). Was the first computer to use variable speed disk (as the early Mac's did as well.) Ran an early
version of MS-DOS, I
think.