The Apricot Zen

My first ever job in technology was working for Apricot Computer World in both Edinburgh and Glasgow.

I was 18 at the time and I was classed as junior technical support.

I remember a sitting in on a demo with a salesman and a client interested in buying an Apricot PC. Back then the PC would have cost about 2000 pounds.

The demo consisted of Wordstar the word processing application of the day.

This is DOS remember 3.3 or something like. 

The hardware would have been a 80286 or 80386

As part of the demo the salesman would print a letter to a Dot Matrix Printer. (how exciting that must have been for the client).

I vividly remember the salesman explaining the hard disks, this boiled down to a choice of 20mb or 40mb. “With the 40mb model you will never need to worry about running out of space”.

I love the fact I was introduced to the PC at just the right time for technology to capture my imagination and here I am 20 years later.

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