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From: cczdvh@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Valentine-Hagart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys
Subject: Sirius 1 pc.
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.203351.23757@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Apr 91 20:33:51 GMT
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I have just aquired (gratis) an old & venerable piece of pc technology
namely a  Sirius 1 micro. From the bootup messages I can tell it
is running MS-DOS 1.25aH !!! with an I/O subsystem version 2.71.
256K of ram and command version 2.01. Other messages tell me the
keyboard is british02 and the char set is british01, it also has
one parrallel port and two 25 pin serial? ports on the back..blah.blah.
So far so good, *but* because it was free (you guessed :-> )
I don't have any docs .
Can anyone give me some info on this machine, most importantly :

1. What is the disk format/size... a DS/DD 48tpi floppy formatted ok
   on this machine but could not be read on a modern 360K MS-DOS drive
   (oh woe).

2. Assuming I can surmount problem 1. can anyone provide/point me in
   the direction of an upgrade to the OS, Dos 2.xx f'rinstance & any
   runnable software.

But seriously folks.. any help would be *seriously* appreciated .

David Valentine-Hagart   aka. rest home for retired pc's .
                         Email me on cczdvh@uk.ac.nott.vme
                                                       ^^^
ps. The address of the manufacturer Victor Technologies, Scotts Valley 
    Calif. ...whither they now ???
                eMail....cczdvh@uk.ac.nott.ccc.vme....