Apricot Computer
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And yes, they were a real company... Or at least tried desparately to be. :)
God, I hate flea-market knockoffs...
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God, I hate flea-market knockoffs...
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Date: 2008-03-08 05:17 pm (UTC)Oh wait, I'm remembering alternate history again.
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Date: 2008-03-08 05:32 pm (UTC)I used an Adam, not an Apple when I was growing up. I loved having to put a cassette tape into the brick to get DOS to run.
Good times!
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Date: 2008-03-08 05:53 pm (UTC)These weren't Apple knockoffs by any means; they were intended to compete with IBM and ran MS-DOS or CP/M. They had some great ideas--that stick to the right of the machine in the photo is an IR mouse/trackball, for instance. They weren't hardware-compatible with the IBM PC in the beginning, though they later would be, and were rather popular in the UK. Eventually, as I recall, they were bought out by Mitsubishi and ceased to operate independently.
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Date: 2008-03-09 02:52 am (UTC)The bits had to go uphill, both ways!
And Napster? We were lucky if we could find song lyrics on the local BBS!
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Date: 2008-03-08 09:44 pm (UTC)(hee hee)
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