17 Apr
2009
17 Apr
'09
3:52 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 16 Apr 2009 at 17:56, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
wrote:
As I've mentioned in the past, we had a family friend when I was
growing up that had a Challenger III. I got to go over a few times
and play on it. At one point, I was helping him recode a BASIC
program in 6502 assembler, but my skills at 13 weren't quite up to the
task with his tools (I did OK at home poking out simple stuff).
I've never seen another one, though I'm sure they sold more than one.
In fact, OSI was two hours from my house, and I've only ever seen that
one C3P and a couple of "Superboard"s in the wild.
If I ever saw any OSI stuff at a hamfest, I would have bought it, but,
alas, no. I'm not sure I "need" to own a C3P, but it would be great
to play on one for a day or two. Anyone one the list have one they
could hook up to a serial line that's net-accessible?
-ethan
No. ?I think I read about it in kilabuad, rather
than a early BYTE. I
think they supported a 8080, 6502 and 6100 as add on cards....
The OSI Challenger III was another such system:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=47 
17 Apr
17 Apr
4:52 a.m.
On 16 Apr 2009 at 23:52, Ethan Dicks wrote:
If I ever saw any OSI stuff at a hamfest, I would have
bought it, but,
alas, no. I'm not sure I "need" to own a C3P, but it would be great
to play on one for a day or two.
Didn't OSI produce a C5 with about 5 different CPUs?
--Chuck
9:52 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 16 Apr 2009 at 23:52, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I have a C3 in a large rack mount. The C3 had a 6502, 6809 and 8080
in it. They advertised a board (that I have the schematics for, but have
never owned) that would add a z80 and an intersil 6100 (pdp on a chip).
I never heard of a machine so equipped called a 'C5' though. The ex-OSI
dealers I have asked about it all say it never worked completely right and
the resulting system was so different from any dec machine that coding
for it ended up being almost a complete rewrite anyway.
Bill
If I ever saw any OSI stuff at a hamfest, I would
have bought it, but,
alas, no. I'm not sure I "need" to own a C3P, but it would be great
to play on one for a day or two.
Didn't OSI produce a C5 with about 5 different CPUs?
18 Apr
18 Apr
6:02 p.m.
On Thursday 16 April 2009 11:52:55 pm Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
I remember those ads well, and besides the fact that you had your choice of
CPU with that company, they were also the first one I remember seeing that
offered a hard disk in the hobby market. And not just the measly 10MB that
other companies came out with later on, but 74MB! :-)
A company I worked for back in 1978 was considering their system, but they
were unresponsive to such inquiries as could they be put in touch with
someone who'd bought one and similar, so they ended up buying an H11 (that I
got to assemble) instead.
--
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"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On 16 Apr 2009 at 17:56, bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
As I've mentioned in the past, we had a family friend when I was
growing up that had a Challenger III. I got to go over a few times
and play on it. At one point, I was helping him recode a BASIC
program in 6502 assembler, but my skills at 13 weren't quite up to the
task with his tools (I did OK at home poking out simple stuff).
I've never seen another one, though I'm sure they sold more than one.
In fact, OSI was two hours from my house, and I've only ever seen that
one C3P and a couple of "Superboard"s in the wild.
If I ever saw any OSI stuff at a hamfest, I would have bought it, but,
alas, no. I'm not sure I "need" to own a C3P, but it would be great
to play on one for a day or two. Anyone one the list have one they
could hook up to a serial line that's net-accessible?
-ethan No. ?I think I read about it in kilabuad, rather
than a early BYTE. I
think they supported a 8080, 6502 and 6100 as add on cards....
The OSI Challenger III was another such system:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=47
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