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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: Fun Game: ID this Osbourne from description!
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:28:09 GMT
- Keywords: Osbourne, lunchbox, portable
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- ph3@unixg.ubc.ca (Michael Hamilton (phys 306)) writes:
-
- >OK, the university here has a Surplus Equipment Recycling Facility (SERF) which
- >sells the crap that the university inevitably accumulates. Today, I found an
- >old Osbourne among the stuff, and I'm wondering if anyone can ID ir from its
- >description.
- >If you know what this computer is, and what you think it's worth, please mail
- >me or post.
- *----
- It sounds like an Osborne I to me. It runs CP/M, and originally
- came bundled with Wordstar and other software. There were several
- factory modifications, including a disk capacity doubler and serial
- port fix, that are desirable. There were a lot of them around,
- and they don't bring much money, even among collectors. It was a
- pioneer machine in the sense that it was a complete package,
- however non-expandable, which was at the top of the limit of
- personal computing when it was made. It came bundled with all
- the software you needed to perform useful tasks. It was the
- Macintosh of its day.
- --
- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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