On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:28 +1000, "John Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I remember lugging the Osborne portable around, the thing was as heavy as > lead, but it ran about three times as fast as the then current IBM PC2 - > lovely orange duotone screen too! > Yes - 'portable' was really stretching the meaning of the word. I have still have one tucked away...CP/M, Wordstar, Supercalc. Memories, memories..... I haven't fired it up for well over a decade. Maybe I should to see if it still works. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
