>The Apricot (PC built around 1984) had one designed in but did
>not ship with one installed. The story goes that when the Apricot
>went into production they couldn't get a fraction of the 8089s
>they required so they patched it out using a piece of wire and
>an inverter. Ironically the patched machine ran faster.

Could be the case, but I believe the 8089 was also horribly expensive for
what it did. No figures to back this up, it may just be that I was in a
backwater they did not want to supply with these things, or it may be that
this was how they determined who got supplied with the low production
numbers.

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