Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis

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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:31

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On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:47:24 -0700, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com>
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.

     You mean increase, don't you?  <BEG>

     I also did not like that one of the Ms which displayed with no
pixels in one of the middle columns.

     I preferred the KayPro II for hardware, but their software was
yuck.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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