DEC and Apricots

From: Olminkhof <jolminkh_at_c2.telstra-mm.net.au>
Date: Sun Jan 25 17:26:25 1998

>Two questions:
.

>2) I heard of a machine called the Apricot, which came in a portable
>model w/voice recognition, and several desktop ones. It seems they
>were all Intel-based. Could someone tell me if they were really good
>as far as the GUI and voice recognition and everything else, or just
>commercial junk? How much would these machines go for?

The GUI was quite primitive compared to say a Mac of the same era. Mine are
all monochrome, don't know if there was a color version. Hadn't heard of the
voice recognition before.

There is an Apricot wep page at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4462/apricot.html
Received on Sun Jan 25 1998 - 17:26:25 GMT

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