Osborne Computer 4 (Vixen) prototype?

On Sunday 20 July 2008 02:31, Chuck Guzis wrote: When we were first looking to acquire our own personal machine (early 1980s sometime?) there weren't a whole lot of choices out there. I remember looking at the TI 99/4A, the O-1, and a few other things, and although I wanted an 80-column screen and at _two_ floppy drives (which ruled out the TI box once you added in the required expansion box and such) I couldn't get into the idea of having to scroll horizontally to see those 80 columns. And yes, that monitor was too darn small! :-) However in 1985 I ended up opening my repair business in the same building where the Osborne dealer was, got involved with the LUG, and started seeing a bunch of those anyhow. And when a store employee offered me his Executive (along with an Oki 92 printer, and nice carrying cases for both) I took him up on it. I was okay with that monitor for a good long time, and used that machine well after lots of other folks had moved on from their c64s and O-1s to peecee hardware, though eventually I ended up going there myself. Dunno how readable I'd find it these days, and it's been a really long time since I fired it up. I should probably do something about that one of these days, I guess. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin