30 Dec
1999
30 Dec
'99
12:55 p.m.
Hi Tony,
Have I just stepped into a timewarp? I seem to
remember posting
that a few months back ;-)
Ah, that's my fault....I had a backlog of nearly 3000 messages from the past
few months which I ate my way through today.
I've not been keeping up with this list due to various outside problems (5
family members hospitalised for several weeks, one after the other). :-(
My knowledge of Apricots doesn't go much beyond
the original PC.
That was a strange machine -- one of the few MS-DOS boxes to use
an 8089 I/O coprocessor....
Yes, it's the only machine I've come across so far which utilises the 8089.
It's a neat design, before I got into DEC gear about 10 - 11 years ago I was
a bit of an Apricot nut. That said I've never been interested in the PC
clones they made, of which there were many.
BTW, what's the connection between Apricot and the
Sirius?....
Ah, as I recall Apricot were originally called "ACT" and distributed the
Sirius in this country. When they decided to produce their own PC a couple
of years later they based their design on the Sirius (and renamed themselves
"Apricot") which they had a lot of experience with.
I always thought it was a real shame that they omitted the CODEC and
keyboard control of monitor contrast/brightness and speaker volume. :-( The
"microscreen" while a nice touch never quite made up for that IMHO.
TTFN - Pete.
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