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Oct 22, 2015 09:54:54 #
Even before the KayPro (several of which I owned) there was the first mass produced "portable" computer: the Osborne 1. It was a CPM computer, and my first. It had 64K of memory, mine had two 90K floppy disk drives, and I had a very early edition of Wordstar word processor, which ran using only 3 files! Wordstar was a masterful piece of software programming. I still remember the CPM "pip" command which was used to copy a file from one disk to another. The Osbirne 1 also came bundled with the first spreadsheet, SuperCalc.
Oh yeah, the beast was the same size as my sewing machine, and weighed just around 40lbs! It did have a great keyboard, and now that I think about it, I wish I still owned it. I paid $1300 for it at a Xerox Store in Mesa. Later I sold it and bought my first KayPro, into which I installed my first hard drive. It was a massive 10Mb unit and cost me $400. I was thrilled with it. Osborne went belly up in 1984. Too bad.
Today Osborne 1 computers sell on the Internet for between $200 and $3000, depending on their condition.
😃😃😃
Oh yeah, the beast was the same size as my sewing machine, and weighed just around 40lbs! It did have a great keyboard, and now that I think about it, I wish I still owned it. I paid $1300 for it at a Xerox Store in Mesa. Later I sold it and bought my first KayPro, into which I installed my first hard drive. It was a massive 10Mb unit and cost me $400. I was thrilled with it. Osborne went belly up in 1984. Too bad.
Today Osborne 1 computers sell on the Internet for between $200 and $3000, depending on their condition.
😃😃😃
Kuzano wrote:
When I started building computers in the late 80's... (show quote)
Original Osborne 1 "portable" computer
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