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From: nigelw@ibmpcug.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: 'Antique' machine info sought...
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.112347.687@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 13 Sep 90 11:23:47 GMT
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Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <142343@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> landauer@morocco.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer) writes:
> > I've just been given a Victor 9000 PC ...
> 
> Though Victor Technologies is no more (or is a fragment of some larger
> company), the street they used to be on in Scotts Valley is still
> called Victor Square ... I like to think of it as a monument to all
> those startup companies that didn't quite make it.   :-/

Until May I worked as Sales/Support Manager for a company in London,
and we dealt in Victor systems. They're originally a Scandinavian
company, but were recently bought by Tandy Corp. As far as I can
remember from the information that we were sent, they are still trading
as an entirely separate entity. This probably has something to do with
the fact that Victor systems are a lot more popular over here than
Tandy....

On a historical note, I think that the Victor 9000 was marketed by
someone else as the ACT Sirius 1 in this country, or maybe I'm thinking
of an earlier Victor machine...

Nigel.
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