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From: tedk@cbnewsc.att.com (ted.g.kekatos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys
Subject: Re: Sirius 1 pc.
Summary: Sirius-1 PC, Victor 9000 PC
Keywords: Sirius-1 PC, Victor 9000 PC
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.042504.5997@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 04:25:04 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.203351.23757@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Indian Hill - Naperville, IL
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In article <1991Apr17.203351.23757@cs.nott.ac.uk> cczdvh@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Valentine-Hagart) writes:
|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.

The Sirius-1/Victor 9000 (same machine) was a fine machine for its
day. It was introduced slightly before the IBM-PC. Therefore it
is not PC-compatible. The last version of MS-DOS available was 
2.11. There where keyboard for several dozen markets. The disks are
not compatible with anything else. The drive is custom and used
variable speed motor. The single sided drive formats to about 700K
and the double sided formats to 1.4M. The drive uses DS/DD disks.

The machine was manufactured by Sirius Tech in California for
Victor Business Machines. Victor sold them in the US and Sirius
sold them elsewhere. Later, Sirius bought out Victor and changed
its American operation to Victor Tech. The whole operation
filed chapter 11, bankrupt and re-structure. They later manufactured
PC-compatibles in the US and Europe. 

I have tons of software, tons of manuals, technical manuals, service
manuals, two working machines, and have been using mine until about 1/1/91.

The software is "old" compared to today's PC software. 

You may telephone me. 9am to 5pm Central time.


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