My first contact with the O1 was being shown into an office at Sorcim in
Santa Clara, where Richard Frank showed me a bunch of stuff strewn
across a tabletop, connected by wires. While I wasn't impressed by
yet another Z80 box (they seemed to be growing out of the sidewalk
cracks with every rain), I commented on the very small monitor and said
that the thing would never fly because of the damned characters were
almost invisible.
Sorcim was working on the CBIOS for the thing.
--Chuck