Mitsubishi Apricot

[Peter Chatt]

Hi, well this is amazing.  It's only the second time some one has known what I'm talking about!

I have 6 LANstations a mix of 16s and 20s.  Only one of them will boot which I boot from its hdd or a Netwear 3.12 server.

Iv tried all sorts over the years (about 15).

These don't have the infrared system but in specs Iv read on the bios there is mention of a security bit on the boot floppy.  I need some one that worked on them back in the day.

It's SO frustrating, as is the way of playing with old tech.

Peter

On 25 Jan 2016, at 22:26, Ali <cctalk at fahimi.net> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Dose anybody know about Mitsubishi Apricots (1990ish)? They are of
>> interest to me as they were the first PC I used and I now have a few.
>> I'm having issues with getting them to boot from a floppy. Iv done some
>> reading around the subject and from what I understand I need a secure
>> boot floppy.
>> 
>> Can anybody help?
>> 
>> Thanks
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Which Apricot models do you have? I have lusted after an Apricot VX FT since it graced the cover of Byte oh so many years ago! 
> 
> -Ali
>