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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
 Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 15:12:13
Anyone remember how in the early '80s, a company called "Osborne" was around? Well, i think i know what happened to them. They didn't shut down completely. They just closed their doors in the US, and started selling computers in Australia (and probably other countries), before they were bought out by (i think) Gateway in 1995. They actually did make pretty good machines...i have a friend with quite a few of their 486s.-------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 16:23:08
Yes, I remember helping a friend buy an Osborne I, back around 1982. It was the original luggable with a flip-down keyboard in the lid and a little green-screen CRT in the center. It ran CPM off floppies.Its spooky that you should bring up the company becuase the founder, Adam Osborne, died just this week. The story that I read was that the company cratered when they announced that a new machine was coming out and everyone stopped buying their old machines. No wonder Apple is so tip-lipped about new product announcements. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way
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alphamatrix
New Member
USA
60 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 17:48:38
I picked up a Osborne I from the dump awhile back, still have it but I need a power cord and some floppies to see if it still works.
::68k: Classic, LC, LC II, Q605, Mac IIsi ::Other: iMac DV SE, PM7500 -200Mhz, PM7200 -75Mhz, Apple //c::
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 18:12:27
Dumb question: Don't they use a standard IEC type power cable?-------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
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alphamatrix
New Member
USA
60 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 18:33:26
quote:
Dumb question: Don't they use a standard IEC type power cable?
 now don't I feel stupid!!!
::68k: Classic, LC, LC II, Q605, Mac IIsi ::Other: iMac DV SE, PM7500 -200Mhz, PM7200 -75Mhz, Apple //c::
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 23:12:08
It happens to the best of us...Everyone seems to think that all macs use weird power cables... when the truth sometimes is that the black cords that come with P{EESSEEs sometimew work better than the ElectriCord ones we get with our macs... (LIKE NEVAH!!!) Official 68k videographer
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