Apricot Xen (not IBM PC/AT compatible) used Windows 1.0, 80286@7.5MHz, and had a paper-white monitor - was fantastic to use. Windows performed really well on it.
https://classic.technology/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Aprico...
It almost feels like this is not an actual company or product, but a convincing retro design created by a designer today. I know Apricot was real, but something about it feels like it’s winking ironically, in a “what if this had taken off” kind of way. Imagine the pixel art Apricot on the back of a 2006 smartphone in that alternate universe. (Steve Jobs never went back to Apple and instead Apricot teamed up with ARM and Psion to create the Jesus Phone, turning Britain into the new Silicon Valley…)
>Twin 720K MicroFloppy drives offer 1.44 megabytes of mass storage
but I cant see second FDD on the picture, not a spot for one.
720KB FDD, blank
720KB FDD, 720KB FDD
720KB FDD, 20MB HDD
* Although the network and classes were at the local college as some kind of crossover access, I recall another of the classes involved their lab of Apple IIe that had this weird gated access to the internet for email.
It also came with WordStar 2000, which was a bit weird...
The one I had access to had the small green screen monitor, originally from the Apricot PC (Xi?).
Spent many an happy hour with it putting together various DB applications using Delta IV - a hierarchical database system.