Victor 9000

From: Olminkhof <jolminkh_at_c2.telstra-mm.net.au>
Date: Tue Jun 17 03:50:01 1997

The Victor 9000 sounds like a machine sold in Australia and perhaps Europe
as the ACT Sirius and coexisted for a time with the IBM PC because of a
shortage of the latter. Chuck Peddle (spelling?) was the originator of the
Sirius.

The ACT company I think was British and later changed it's name to Apricot.

Or am I completely on the wrong track?

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> From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_crl.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Victor 9000
> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 1997 10:45 AM
>
> At 11:50 PM 6/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >So what exactly is a Victor 9000???
> >Just another PC clone?
>
> Not a clone, but similar. Max RAM was 768K, came with a Floppy Drive as
> standard (IIRC). Was the first computer to use variable speed disk
drives
> (as the early Mac's did as well.) Ran an early version of MS-DOS, I
think.
>
Received on Tue Jun 17 1997 - 03:50:01 BST