Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-30 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 12/29/18 6:59 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote: And then other boards used a 3A-xx number instead of the 2A2001 number. Kind of confusing. For what it's worth, looking at a photo, my[1] machine's board looks more like "3P10083 REV A" down by the front edge of the board, unless there's some

RE: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Brad H via cctalk
> Some small companies would give employees extreme discounts if they assembled one themselves using mostly parts which had been deemed too > >obsolete for production. I was thinking something like that, or it was repaired at one point and this particular board was on hand to use as a

RE: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Brad H via cctalk
[mailto:baryth...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 2:48 PM To: Brad H ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard Maybe too easy but have you asked the seller if they know anything about it's origins? I'd also guess maybe

RE: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Brad H via cctalk
: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard On 12/29/18 2:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote: > Am just posting this as I am hoping someone out there knows someone > who was involved with Osborne back in the day to find out more this > Osborne 1 motherboard I found in a low serial O1 I

Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018, Sam O'nella via cctalk wrote: Maybe too easy but have you asked the seller if they know anything about it's origins? I'd also guess maybe an employee or it could just be one of the 6 motherboard types as someone else commented. Pretty awesome though with the low serial.

Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: I first saw the O1 when Richard showed me into a room with the various bits strewn about on a tabletop (no case yet). I opined that it would never sell with the tiny display. I had known that Lee was working on something like that, but no

Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 12/29/18 2:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote: Am just posting this as I am hoping someone out there knows someone who was involved with Osborne back in the day to find out more this Osborne 1 motherboard I found in a low serial O1 I picked up for $100. Is it just the board layout that's

RE: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Brad H via cctalk
serial range or even lower that don't have the Revision that came after. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow via cctalk Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 2:09 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Osborne-1 with prototype

Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Sam O'nella via cctalk
Maybe too easy but have you asked the seller if they know anything about it's origins? I'd also guess maybe an employee or it could just be one of the 6 motherboard types as someone else commented. Pretty awesome though with the low serial. Thanks also for the blog. I had no idea about the

Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/29/18 12:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote: > I reached out to Lee Felsenstein on it and he suggested it was related to > the boards produced for the 10 prototypes Osborne built I'm pretty sure I threw one of those out about five years ago. Will dig through the archive to see if there are

Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/29/18 12:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote: > I've posted a blog about it here with a picture of the board for those > curious: http://bradhodge.ca/blog/?p=1186 If you can run down any of the old Sorcim crowd, say, Richard Frank or Marty Herbach, they might have saved some information. I