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The closest to PC's as we know them now (in that they actually ran MS-DOS) would have been Apricot's range of machines. The Apricot PC ('83), Apricot PC Xi ('8
by dfawcus 4y ago
The closest to PC's as we know them now (in that they actually ran MS-DOS) would have been Apricot's range of machines.
The Apricot PC ('83), Apricot PC Xi ('84), and Apricot XEN ('85).
I actually used the XEN at the time, since a relative had one.
However these were not IBM compatible, in that they used different support chips, and had different memory maps.
The Apricot XEN-i ('86) actually was IBM PC compatible.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_Computers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_Computers
- rwmj 4y agoAnd of course the Amstrad PCs which were hugely popular over here (until the hard disk disaster). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512 They were only mostly PC compatible with a few rough edges, eg proprietary mouse and keyboard, PSU integrated into the monitor (oh Amstrad!) They were all exceptionally cheap compared to similar american PCs of the time.