Victor 9000

The Victor 9000 was an 8088 machine released in 1981. The machine could run both MS-DOS as well as CPM/86. While using MS-DOS and an 8088 chip, it was not IBM compatible. The Victor utilized a unique floppy drive controller, its own interrupt table, and memory layout. The Victor 9000 could utilize up to 896KB RAM, and shipped in a floppy drive configuration with two floppies or a hard-drive configuration that only had a single floppy drive.

Chuck Peddle designed the machine and was the CEO of Victor Technologies, He was also the engineer behind the 6502 microprocessor which unleashed the affordable personal computing revolution of the 80's. The 6502 processor ran inside Apple IIs, Commodore 64s, and a variety of other low-cost computers of the time.

Applied Computer Techniques sold the Victor 9000 in Europe as the ACT Sirius 1. The Sirius 1 was the same machine simply rebranded for the European market. Because IBM had difficulty meeting the supply needs of the American market, the IBM-PC was not available in Europe for the initial few years of its release. Without IBM as a serious competitor the ACT Sirius 1 was the top selling computer in Europe during the early years of the computing revolution.

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