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Article #621735Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis
From: Dave Garland
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 04:41
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 04:41
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On 4/5/2018 4:47 PM, Peter Flass wrote: > 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. > True, but hardly anybody actually lugged them. (While I've got one, I didn't actually know about the external monitor thing. I bought it at the end from whoever had the remnants of Osborne because it came with dBaseII and at the time I needed a db program. It was cheaper than buying dBase II alone. Should really try and see if it'll boot up, or if the electrolytics or boot floppy have died.)
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