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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!coopsol!brentw
- From: brentw@coopsol.com (Brent Williams)
- Subject: Re: Fun Game: ID this Osbourne from description!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.213006.28912@coopsol.com>
- Keywords: Osbourne, lunchbox, portable
- Organization: Cooperative Solutions, Inc.
- References: <ph3.712445002@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:30:06 GMT
- Lines: 23
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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.
-
- It's an Osborne 1, made circa 1980. CP/M machine. The two slots below the
- diskette drives are to store the diskettes in -- half height drives were not
- around when this machine was made.
-
- Probably worth on the order of $100, but probably much of that as a historical
- antique -- the first luggable computer -- rather than any real computational
- value.
-
- I still have mine somewhere.
-
-
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- Brent Williams/Cooperative Solutions Inc., San Jose CA (408) 377-0300
- brentw@coopsol.com
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- industrial strength graphical client/server business applications.
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