Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis

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From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:47

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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:00:01 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote:
>> 
>> On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 9:43:09 PM UTC-6, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> 
>>> Also interesting that there's very little Osborne 1 traffic on
>>> comp.os.cpm.
>> 
>> Since its screen was 56 characters wide instead of 80, software had to
>> be modified to run on it; it wasn't a *standard* CP/M machine, unlike
>> the Kaypro.
> 
> You could install an external monitor on the Osborne to get the full 80
> characters. I though doubt many users did this.

It would degrade it's luggability quotient.

-- 
Pete

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