2 Jun
1997
2 Jun
'97
7:14 a.m.
I finally got a chance to play with my Osborne 1 and must say it is a
nice little system. For its time it was a great product. The software
is very user-friendly and overall the system runs quite nicely. The disk
drives are rather fast. I was making backups of my system disks and it
reads almost 5 tracks per second (but writes at about a rate of 5 seconds
per track).
Hey, my Osborne 1 has serial number A01284. Can anyone beat that?
Sam
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3 Jun
3 Jun
8:02 p.m.
At 09:14 AM 6/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
Hey, my Osborne 1 has serial number A01284. Can anyone beat that?
Sigh... You got me beat. Mine shows A19341.
-jim
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16 Jun
16 Jun
5:18 a.m.
Thanks to Sam and his help, I've just aquired my own Osborne 1! It
certainly is a nice system..and it's easy to understand the improvements made
between it and the Executive, especially with them sitting side by side. I
can't believe there is absolutely no ventilation in that case, other than the
little screens on the front panel! I must say that CP/M on the Osborne is one
of the nicer CP/M flavors I've seen yet, especially CP/M 3 on the Executive.
Hey, my Osborne 1 has serial number A01284. Can anyone
beat that?
This one is A02518
Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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3:36 p.m.
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:
They came from the same lot. They're probably siblings, maybe having
come from the same batch at the Osborne factory!
Sam
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Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass
Hey, my Osborne
1 has serial number A01284. Can anyone beat that?
This one is A02518
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