I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer.
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I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was low. I had no idea that it was not IBM PC-compatible, and that there were very few programs available for it.
I have been on a quest to get a modern-ish word processor and spreadsheet program for it ever since. Which eventually made me "port" Windows 2 on it. In this post, I share the story of the port. Many photos inside!
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I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was low. I had no idea that it was not IBM PC-compatible, and that there were very few programs available for it.
I have been on a quest to get a modern-ish word processor and spreadsheet program for it ever since. Which eventually made me "port" Windows 2 on it. In this post, I share the story of the port. Many photos inside!
@nina_kali_nina Pretty much Frankenwindows.
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@nina_kali_nina Pretty much Frankenwindows.
@amoroso this is exactly the name of my working directory for this project
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@amoroso this is exactly the name of my working directory for this project
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I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was low. I had no idea that it was not IBM PC-compatible, and that there were very few programs available for it.
I have been on a quest to get a modern-ish word processor and spreadsheet program for it ever since. Which eventually made me "port" Windows 2 on it. In this post, I share the story of the port. Many photos inside!
@nina_kali_nina The Apricot range were nice machines although as you say not that IBM PC compatable (quite a few British machines of the time were IBM PC-ish but not compatable) The screen was great to look at for hours and hours without eyestrain. I did quite a few of my early contracts programming them. Mostly using the Alpha database although iirc Dataease and Sensible Solution DB/4GL and I think TAS and Multisoft/MOSS ran on it too
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I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was low. I had no idea that it was not IBM PC-compatible, and that there were very few programs available for it.
I have been on a quest to get a modern-ish word processor and spreadsheet program for it ever since. Which eventually made me "port" Windows 2 on it. In this post, I share the story of the port. Many photos inside!
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