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by anyfoo 3081 days ago
I cut my teeth on a "Siemens PC-D", a German variation on the IBM PC. Not quite compatible but almost.

It had an 80186, 1MB of RAM (extreme at the time) and many other niceties that a normal IBM PC didn't have. I think it even had an external MMU, at least it could run SINIX. Though there were UNIX clones like PC/IX and early XENIX versions that ran without MMU on stock IBM XTs, without protection obviously, so I'm not certain what the story with SINIX on the PC-D was.
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Zenst 3081 days ago
Was that the one that came with a remote control to turn it on and off?
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linker3000 3081 days ago
The Apricot Qi came with a remote for booting.

http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=995

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Zenst 3080 days ago
Certainly was an Apricot, and the does look like it and may well be it, but this was 1984/5, which predates the 300 release. That said, was working for government IT department in one of the regional electricity supply companies and do recall the kit was in for evaluation and we did get pre-release kit in to look at. Though we are talking 8086 CPU time-rame here.

But without a doubt though it was an apricot, thank you for that. I did have a quick look or older models it may of been, nothing could pindown for sure. Though pre-release eval kit back then was much more fun and creative than today's verbatim to release.

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anyfoo 3081 days ago
I don't think so... I mean, could be, but I somehow doubt it. This was around the middle of the 80s, by the way.
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