11 Jan
2007
11 Jan
'07
1:20 p.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
On 11/1/07 20:07, "Richard" <legalize at
xmission.com> wrote:
Hmm, we perhaps have a few at the museum which aren't mentioned there, should
you want a nose around at some point. I know we've got some massive server
(<fx: checks> it's a VXFT) which you perhaps haven't seen as it arrived
relatively recently.
Circa 1991 I was messing around with a large (but narrow) Apricot tower
machine - as I recall it was semi-PC-compatible, but not quite. I *think* it
was a 386; presumably a Xen-something-or-other.
There's http://www.actapricot.org but some of its pages seem to have real
trouble rendering in Firefox :-(
I get the impression that Apricot were a bit like ICL - the actual product
range was massive, and for every common machine known about there were ten
more which only a very few people had...
cheers
Jules
The Apricot was an interesting machine -- MS-DOS
compatible, but not
BIOS compatible. In the end, you needed BIOS compatability to be
"100% compatible" in the clone market and the Apricot failed. But
they were nice looking machines with a nice keyboard compared to the
boring boxes offered by others.
I've started a history-that-needs-fleshing-out here:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Apricot/index.php
Hells, I'm missing a load of pictures for some of those machines! Note that
both the XD20 and the 'pc' have the LCD keyboard......