Ohio Scientific (was Re: Intercept Jr. Schematics)

[Bill Sudbrink]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 
> On 16 Apr 2009 at 23:52, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> 
> > If I ever saw any OSI stuff at a hamfest, I would have bought it, but,
> > alas, no.  I'm not sure I "need" to own a C3P, but it would be great
> > to play on one for a day or two.  
> 
> Didn't OSI produce a C5 with about 5 different CPUs?
> 

I have a C3 in a large rack mount.  The C3 had a 6502, 6809 and 8080
in it.  They advertised a board (that I have the schematics for, but have
never owned) that would add a z80 and an intersil 6100 (pdp on a chip).
I never heard of a machine so equipped called a 'C5' though.  The ex-OSI
dealers I have asked about it all say it never worked completely right and
the resulting system was so different from any dec machine that coding
for it ended up being almost a complete rewrite anyway.

Bill