jcw (12/23/82)
The Victor 9000 is being advertised heavily as THE microcomputer to solve ALL your problems. There are even rumors of Unix. Does anything know anything about it? I read the two articles in Byte, so I know it's an 8088 with 128kb, 2 parallel and 2 serial asynch/synch ports, two 5 1/4 inch single sided 600+ kb floppies, and 800x400 b/w bit-mapped graphics. List price recently dropped to 3995 and I've seen it for 3100. Any users out there? Any opinions? Jim Wright RTI mcnc!jcw
bergen@dadlac.UUCP (Alan Bergen) (02/05/85)
>> (4) does Victor still support/document this micro? << > Victor doesn't support anything. They went bust last year. < Just to set the facts straight - Victor Technologies filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in February 1984. They have been operating under that protection until last month, when their organization plan was approved by the court in San Jose, CA. They have been profitable since May 1984, and have been shipping computers (Victor 9000's) in quantity, during that same period. They recently introduced a transportable computer (sometimes called portable) called the Vicki which has the same high resolution (800 X 400) as the Victor 9000, and the same disk capacity (2.4 MBytes on two double sided disks). They are about to announce (or may have already) PC Plus, which will allow the Victor 9000 or the Vicki to use IBM disks and programs. This is commonly called an IBM downgrade by Victor 9000 owners. Although Victor 9000 owners refer to their computers as personal computers, Victor Technologies calls them small business computers, and advertises in business magazines, rather than personal computer magazines. If anyone has any further questions to ask about the Victor 9000, get the facts from any of many user groups throughout the United States.
dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) (02/19/85)
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Glad to hear that Victor is back in business. At Duke we have a number
of 9000s used for word processing in languages that use alphabets other
than Roman. Our Divinity School, for example, uses Victor 9000s for
word processing in Greek, Hebrew, and Ethiopic (and probably a few
others). Not only does the Victor offer higher screen resolution than
the PC, it permits software redefinition of the character set
(something not permitted in the IBM PC except in graphics mode). On
the whole, a very nice machine.
--
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706
(919) 684-3695
USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgarydgary@ucb-vax.ARPA (02/23/85)
Glad to hear that Victor is back in business. At Duke we have a number
of 9000s used for word processing in languages that use alphabets other
than Roman. Our Divinity School, for example, uses Victor 9000s for
word processing in Greek, Hebrew, and Ethiopic (and probably a few
others). Not only does the Victor offer higher screen resolution than
the PC, it permits software redefinition of the character set
(something not permitted in the IBM PC except in graphics mode). On
the whole, a very nice machine.
--
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706
(919) 684-3695
USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary