15 Feb
2013
15 Feb
'13
2:28 a.m.
"Chris Long" <chris at micromuseum.co.uk> writes:
Research Machines made a whole range of PCs starting
with the first
Nimbus.
The RM Nimbus isn't really a PC clone -- it ran MS-DOS but had rather
different hardware. We used them at school in the early 90s and
absolutely hated them; I remember that you had to do "ibmii /p /c" or
"setpc /p /c" to get anything with a graphics display to work, and that
the colour mapping in text mode was odd, so using qbasic on them meant
editing text in white on a red background. Which did interesting things
to your vision after a while...
If anyone in the Dundee area would like one (with keyboard and monitor),
then let me know!
--
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>