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Nina Kalinina
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was low. I had no idea that it was not IBM PC-compatible, and that there were very few programs available for it.

I have been on a quest to get a modern-ish word processor and spreadsheet program for it ever since. Which eventually made me "port" Windows 2 on it. In this post, I share the story of the port. Many photos inside!

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi

A photograph of a vintage Apricot PC computer in dark grey plastic, with a "green phosphor" CRT on top, showing a panel from a comic in Windows Paintbrush. There's a beige mouse to the right of the keyboard, and a larger beige CRT even further to the right.
A photograph of a vintage Apricot PC computer in dark grey plastic, with a "green phosphor" CRT on top, showing a panel from a comic in Windows Paintbrush. There's a beige mouse to the right of the keyboard, and a larger beige CRT even further to the right.
A photograph of a vintage Apricot PC computer in dark grey plastic, with a "green phosphor" CRT on top, showing a panel from a comic in Windows Paintbrush. There's a beige mouse to the right of the keyboard, and a larger beige CRT even further to the right.
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