Victor 9000 -An Early Personal Computer

The Victor 9000 can run CP/M or DOS. Standard was an internal speaker, 12" green text CRT, two serial ports, and a parallel port. Many of the functions in this computer are software-defined, including audio CODECs. Some were shipped with two floppy drives. These speciments have a full-height 10MB HDD and one 5.25" 1.2MB floppy disk. The disk is the same media as a 360K "IBM" diskette. The extra capacity is made available through a variable-speed spindle which, by slowing down a bit for each track allowed the equivalent of an increasing number of 'sectors' as the heads progressed toward the outer diameter of the disk.

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Booting from floppy diskette
victor9000_boot_HDD.MOV
booting from the hard disk. In this case, the disk is partitioned into four logical drives.
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showing how the CRT looks
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this one needs a touch-up. The controls are inside.