🚀 go-pugleaf

On 05 Apr 2018 02:44:46 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:
>
> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes:
>
>> On 04 Apr 2018 00:43:06 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:
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>>> 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.

Well okay. You could connect any (vintage) computer to any mainframe
using some terminal program.

>>> 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.

I ran dBase II (emulated) on an Osborne 1 and took a video. See
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YutvbUgwuEI>. Wasn't very good with its
syntax. But it worked, sort of. :-)

What emulator did you use? I uses MAME. Still having the Office Suite for
the Osborne as floppy images somewhere if anybody wants.
-- 
Andreas

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