Apricot Portable / FP
Description
The Portable (Also known as the 'FP') was basically an Apricot F1 in a weird form-factor, combined with the technically ambitious use of a large 640x200 LCD display capable of 25x80 text.
The Portable had the same infra-red keyboard as the F1. - just with different colour plastics. It also had an integrated microphone for voice dictation use.
Priced from £1949, the Portable sold poorly, and Apricot was forced to write down £5.1m of stock (most of which were Portables) in 1985.
Technical Specification
CPU
Intel 8086 @ 5MHz
RAM
256Kb or 512Kb on board.
An expansion socket supported additional RAM upgrades
Storage
3.5" Double-sided (720Kb) Floppy Drive.
A RAMDisk could be configured as drive B:
External Interfaces
RS-232C Serial
Parallel Printer
Integrated microphone
Internal Expansion
Single Apricot expansion socket