Yes, GEM 1, so it's close to the Atari version with overlapping Windows etc.

Technically it's not "For PC" as the Apricot FP isn't an IBM-PC compatible, but it is running MSDOS 2.11 underneath.

The difference in LCD technology in only 5 years...

Different speeds, different mounting and pin options different voltage combinations?

Now you just need to connect each of them up via their serial ports as a chain and then get the OSI to uploads a program to the first machine which sends a program to the next machine in a chain and then sends a result of a calculation to a line printer.

Brought the Apricot FP back from storage ready for next month's potables exhibition in Cambridge. It still works. You had to have strong arms if you used a portable in the 1980s. :-) IMG_3683.jpeg IMG_3681.jpeg IMG_3685.jpeg IMG_3684.jpeg I'm a bit concerned about the FP's display though. Given the ...

I finally got time this afternoon to build, as much as I can with the parts I have in stock, a relocator/decoder board for jakesdad77 . He first asked for it at the end of January but life has got in the way. IMG_3680.jpeg The 10K resistors I have are a bit large for this board so I had to bodge the...

Back home again. I may get time for some retro stuff this weekend but I'm really tired after leaving Cornwall at 7:30am.

rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:13 pm

stephen_usher wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:14 pm Oh, only decoupling caps dislodged really then.

Mostly, but there are some that 'might' be resistors and are so damn tiny I'm not 100% sure what they are.

Oh, I see them now. Yesy, they look like tiny resistors. I'd not even noticed them in your picture before.