Mastodawn

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/

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QINGCHARLES

@nina_kali_nina Amazing achievement. I don't know how many of these Apricot PCs I had as a kid. By the late nineties I was buying them for £1 each 2nd hand as nobody wanted them (nobody could figure out why they didn't run PC software). I already had a couple of Sirius 1 computers, so I'd amassed a lot of "DOS compatible" programs that would work, and there was always the hope with every new PC you bought it would have some random new gem hidden on the HDD that you hadn't seen before.