12 Sep
1998
12 Sep
'98
9:43 a.m.
On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
An Osborne Vixen followed me home today. Can somebody
familiar with these
things tell me if I have a *RARE* *VALUABLE* prototype? It doesn't look
exactly like the one in the brochure:
http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/cmuseum/vixen.htm
For one thing, it doesn't actually say Vixen on it anywhere (except on the
They were officially known as the Osborne 4.
floppy in the drive), for another the floppy drives
are arranged
horizontally rather than vertically, and for yet another the serial number
starts off with EXP.
The drives orientation is nonstandard. Can't comment on the S/N.
Does anybody know if the production version included a
GPIB port (mine has
I think that is nonstandard also.
- don
one). I don't suppose anybody would like to offer
me Vixen manuals, eh?
-- Doug