16 Jul
2008
16 Jul
'08
4:41 p.m.
I've found machine that I think is a prototype for the Osborne Vixen.
From the outside the case looks exactly like a Vixen
case except that mine
is a ugly brown color rather than the grey/white color scheme
you usually
see and when you open it up it's slightly different from a "production"
Vixen - the floppy drives in mine are horizontal rather than vertical and
the back panel is re-arranged a little. There are no labels of any kind on
the machine except for the giant "OSBORNE" that's molded into the plastic,
and the PCB inside says "Osborne Computer Corp, Rev 2". When you turn it
on, though, it identifies itself as an "OCC 4" and asks for a boot diskette,
so I'm thinking that must be what it is.
Has anybody seen a Vixen in this style? None of the photos I've found on
the web look like this configuration.
And does anybody have software for the OCC4? Will the boot diskettes for
an OCC1 or Executive work on it?
Thanks,
Bob Armstrong