Xref: utzoo comp.misc:10118 comp.sys.misc:2958 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!chl From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: 'Antique' machine info sought... Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 90 08:51:51 GMT References: <90253.024510KITBASH@MTUS5.BITNET> <33734@cup.portal.com> Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: Dept. Of Comp Sci, Univ. of Manchester, UK. Lines: 9 >> I've just been given a Victor 9000 PC, free of charge. As far as I >> can tell, its got a 1.2M 5 1/4 floppy, 10M Hard drive, MS-DOS 2.11 (j?), >> 2 serial ports, a parallel port, and a very strange keyboard & monitor.. So far as I understand, this machine was sold in the UK by Apricot under the name "Sirius", and a very nice machine it was too. I still have one on my desk that I use for word-processing with a package called "Vuwriter". BTW, this department has several of these machines spare. Any offers?