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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes:

> On 04 Apr 2018 00:43:06 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>> Interesting.  I was using Osbornes from '87 to '93, had the archive of
>> (by then obsolete & discontinued) user-group newsletters, devised my
>> own termcap entry so I could Unix/Emacs by remote dialup etc.  And
>> never heard of that.
> 
> Wow, UNIX and Emacs on an Osborne? Intriguing.

Um, Not *exactly*. Guess I need to be more precise.  Unix on a remote
DEC or IBM workstation.  Dialup from Osborne, login to Unix, run
Emacs.  Even so, when the guy whose kindness provided me with the
academic Unix account visited and saw Emacs running^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
displayed on the Osborne in an old farm house in the woods, he was hit
with a fit of giggles.


>> Also interesting that there's very little Osborne 1 traffic on
>> comp.os.cpm.  It was a very versatile & durable machine and full specs
>> were available.
> 
> And had a lot of software bundles. I guess I have a quite complete
> collection of software which came with in. I have no real Osborne but can
> emulate it on my (Linux) PC.

I really liked the DBase II Osborne software.  When I tried to run it
in a CP/M emulator, it appeared that DBase had been hand-hacked to take
advantage of specific Osborne hardware features.  Didn't work well
enough to use.  There may be better emulators now but I gave away all
my O1 stuff to a computer museum over a decade ago.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada