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Offline gazza341

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RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« on: Fri, 28 April 2017, 12:22:15 »
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 28 April 2017, 12:41:55 »
Now that is a keyboard...
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 12:01:06 »
Quote from: taylorswiftttttt on Sat, 29 April 2017, 01:53:17
The bezel around the screen is almost as bad as the one on the iPhone

Woa lad, I think you're right.

Key word is "almost" though  :p
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 02:09:21 »
LOL, what an enormous keyboard for such a little bitty display, huh? Obviously, back then, people realized how much more important keyboards were than the computer's other parts.
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 02:13:05 »
Quote from: gazza341 on Fri, 28 April 2017, 12:22:15
now that's what you call a bezel

lol, I was so not prepared
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 21:45:13 »
Quote from: ander on Tue, 02 May 2017, 02:09:21
LOL, what an enormous keyboard for such a little bitty display, huh? Obviously, back then, people realized how much more important keyboards were than the computer's other parts.

Remember that the keyboard is actually the top of the "suitcase" that the computer was housed in.
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 21:50:29 »
hehe Exent amirite
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 10 May 2017, 15:51:23 »
Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 02 May 2017, 21:45:13
Quote from: ander on Tue, 02 May 2017, 02:09:21
LOL, what an enormous keyboard for such a little bitty display, huh? Obviously, back then, people realized how much more important keyboards were than the computer's other parts.

Remember that the keyboard is actually the top of the "suitcase" that the computer was housed in.

Figuratively as well as literally!
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 10 May 2017, 23:07:09 »
One of these walked into the store I work at and I couldn't say no.

It was supposedly a single owner machine and doesn't look like it was used hardly at all, but unfortunately it didn't come with any software or documentation...


It has the other protective travel insert and a word star overlay, but those were removed when the photo was taken.
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I lie all the time.... I really don't even like keyboards

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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 11 May 2017, 04:51:12 »
Quote from: Aer Fixus on Wed, 10 May 2017, 23:07:09
One of these walked into the store I work at and I couldn't say no...

Awesome, man. There must be some sites where you can download software... The only challenge will be getting it onto some 5.25" floppies.  :?)
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 11 May 2017, 21:39:48 »
Those were the days, when we had tiny screens and huge keyboards!
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Re: RARE VINTAGE OSBORNE COMPUTER
« Reply #13 on: Fri, 12 May 2017, 05:40:53 »
Also, "Vintage Osborne" is probably redundant, huh?
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