12 Sep
1997
12 Sep
'97
2:36 a.m.
Received this last night. Three questions:
1). What's an Osborne Executive?
2). What's it worth?
3). Is anyone interested? If so, please contact the guy directly. This
one, personally, I'm not much interested in at the time.
Thanks!
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To: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net
From: "pro" <pro(a)goes.com>
Subject: For Sale
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 97 11:01:39 PDT
We have an Osborne Executive, excellent condition, complete with cables,
manuals, and software. Make offer? Thanks.
Paul R. Ogushwitz, Ph.D.
PRO Scientific Consulting, 303 Center Street, Hackettstown, NJ 07840
Phone 908-850-1636
Email pro(a)goes.com
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12 Sep
12 Sep
2:54 a.m.
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Bruce Lane wrote:
Received this last night. Three questions:
1). What's an Osborne Executive?
A re-design of the Osborne 1. A bit more polished. Probably had higher
density drives although I don't know the technical differences. Had a
bigger screen.
2). What's it worth?
Watcha got? ;) I got mine included in a carload of stuff, said car load
costing $130. As if that helps.
>We have an Osborne Executive, excellent condition,
complete with cables,
>manuals, and software. Make offer? Thanks.
>
>Paul R. Ogushwitz, Ph.D.
>PRO Scientific Consulting, 303 Center Street, Hackettstown, NJ 07840
>Phone 908-850-1636
>Email pro(a)goes.com
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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3:13 a.m.
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Bruce Lane wrote:
It had double density, 40trk drives, same as the O-1 with the DD upgrade.
The Executive, however, ran CP/M+ (3.0) as opposed to 2.2 on the O-1.
I think (assume) it also had 128K RAM.
<<<John>>>
Received this last night. Three questions:
1). What's an Osborne Executive?
A re-design of the Osborne 1. A bit more polished. Probably had higher
density drives although I don't know the technical differences. Had a
bigger screen. 
6:55 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
I checked my Osborne Executive Reference Guide. It lists starndard
hardware features:
Z80A central processor
124K total RAM
4K RAM for two charactersets (128 characters/set)
4K x 12 RAM for video memory
8K ROM
2K bytes scratchpad RAM
7-inch amber video monitor
Two double-density disk drives (185K capacity each)
Two RS-232-C serial ports
Parallel port: IEEE 488 or Centronics protocols
External Video connector
Composite video connector (RS-470)
Full upper/lowercase keyboard, with numeric keypad
The RAM is bank-switched.
--pec
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On Fri, 12 Sep
1997, Bruce Lane wrote:
It had double density, 40trk drives, same as the O-1 with the DD upgrade.
The Executive, however, ran CP/M+ (3.0) as opposed to 2.2 on the O-1.
I think (assume) it also had 128K RAM.
Received this last night. Three questions:
1). What's an Osborne Executive?
A re-design of the Osborne 1. A bit more polished. Probably had higher
density drives although I don't know the technical differences. Had a
bigger screen.
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