Apricot PC

The Apricot PC was a personal computer produced by Apricot Computers. Released in late 1983, it was Apricot's first computer made for business use.

The press received it well, especially for the high resolution 800 × 400 of its time and its trackball cable (future models used IR).

It used an Intel 8086 processor running at 4,77 MHz. Optional 8087 math co-processor were possible. Memory is 256 kB expandable to 768 kB. CRT green-screen 9" with text mode 80 × 25 or graphics 800 × 400 pixels. Equipped with two floppy discs and a keyboard with an integrated LCD display. Released in 1983, it achieved success in the United Kingdom.

The Apricot Xi was a similar computer released in 1984, but with a hard drive instead of a second floppy-drive.

Software

Due to incompatible BIOS, trying to run a software package like dBase III would result in a system crash.

The system was delivered with SuperCalc, and several system utilities, asynchronous communication, an emulator for IBM PC, Microsoft Basic-86, Basic Personal and ACT Manager (a GUI for MS-DOS). Optionally you can buy Microsoft Word, Multiplan, WordStar, dBase II, C-Pascal, UCSD Pascal, C, Fortran, COBOL and Basic Compiler 5.35.