ACT/Apricot
ACT/Apricot support
Support for IBM compatible Apricot machines
When Mitsubishi Electric closed Apricot UK down completely, they handed over in-warranty support to OSE Midlands. The website which OSE Midlands kept available during this support period has been rescued (thanks to James Talbot) is now available here: Mitsubishi Insight Online. Please bear with me - some of the links are still broken.
Mending and upgrading your ACT/Apricot
- Freeing a sticky floppy drive that won't eject disks.
- The best way to clean your green screen.
- Diagnostic Error code lists for PC/Xi/F1/FP/Xen.
- Converting Apricot power supplies between 110V and 240V.
- How to take apart an Apricot F1.
- Adding an MFM hard disk to a PC (ie not Xi) with disk controller.
- Information about the orignal 3.5" disk drives.
- Apricot BIOS EPROMs.
Getting software for the Apricot series
- Software for the ACT Apricot series - introduction
- APRIDISK - Apricot disk archive utility
- If you are interested in writing software for the ACT Apricot machines please take a look at these programming resources
Transferring data between the ACT/Apricot machines and modern machines
If you need to get files which are on an Apricot floppy disk then Transferring files from Apricots should help.
Documentation
Documentation will be added here as it is available electronically.
USER PROMPT Guides
A UK company apparently called User Prompt (of 54 Stanhope Road, Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent DE11 9BQ) created a number of "UserPrompt Guides". I have been unable to find any current contact information for User Prompt so these guides are reproduced here without permission:
- USER PROMPT Apricot Guide Issue 1 (1Mb)
- USER PROMPT Apricot Guide Issue 2 (1.5Mb)
- USER PROMPT Apricot Guide for the Apricot Portable (FP) (1.5Mb)
Original Apricot documentation
- Apricot F1 Technical Reference manual (10Mb)
- Apricot FP (Portable) Schematics from Technical Reference Manual (2.6Mb)
- Combined Apricot Technical Bulletins up to bulletin 26 (16Mb) and searchable OCR'd bulletin contents
Other support avenues
Please refer to the list of relevant companies.
Buying and selling Apricot computers
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