Over the 1984/85 summer, i earnt enough money to buy my first computer. I was never going to be able to afford one of the big names, but my neighbour was selling some Apple II clones made in Singapore by Limco. I’m not sure that it was the most well-informed purchase that i’ve ever made, but the computer got me through my final year of uni and taught me a lot of things along the way.
It sat in a cupboard for many years and then in my shed for many more before i boldly applied power in about 2014. To my surprise, it booted up fine. I added a super serial card and used ADTPro to back up my floppy disks.
Compatibility is not perfect, but most programs run ok. The included CP/M included a RAM disk which used the additional 64k of memory. The keyboard interface is unique, but i have deciphered it so that i can use a PS/2 keyboard if the original fails.
It has two Chinon floppy disk drives in the flip top chassis. I’ve since added a couple more external drives – 160kB is not a lot to work with.
The monitor is a rebadged Mitsubishi unit similar to the ones that were often used with Microbee computers.
Sadly, i stupidly gave away the printer about 30 years ago. It was a rebadged Panasonic unit.