Texas Instruments CC40

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 25 April 2008 20:48, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> >>    Well for Christmas, she showed up here with an Osborne-1 with
> >> manuals, software, an external (green-screen) monitor, and an Epson
> >> RX-80, including all cables, all in near-perfect condition!
> >> Apparently she scored that system at a thrift store for something
> >> like ten bucks.  One can't argue with that.
> >
> > Cool.  Does it have the DD card and the Screen-Pac upgrade?  I have
> > some nontrivial amount of software for those...
>
>    Nope, no DD or ScreenPac, it's just a plain '1.

Bummer.  Only 90K or so on a floppy...

>    I remember selling Kaypro systems at an after-school job in the
> mid-1980s.  We pushed them pretty hard on the "much bigger display
> than an Osborne 1" selling point.  I still like the overall design of
> the Osborne, though, especially the little cubby holes for floppies.
> That's very handy.

Yep.  But it was also a kicker after I'd installed the screen-pac for somebody 
to see 104 columns on that itty bitty screen.  :-)


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