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Old as fuck computing general 2016-07-19 05:30:03 Post No.
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Old as fuck computing general Anonymous 2016-07-19 05:30:03 Post No. [Report]

So I've got pic related, it's an osborne 1, though mine is missing the space bar and it's been stored in freezing temperatures for the winter. It works, I think, because when I got it it belched smoke, but turned on and stayed on, no blown caps or anything

I'm missing an OS disk, and I've finally managed to track one down on ebay, it probably won't work, and if it does it'll probably swiftly burn my house down, but who'd be interested in seeing a system like this up and running?
To be honest, I might be able to write an OS my self, the Z80's instruction set isn't that hard, and by now CP/M has been reverse engineered to fuck, how the hell would I write to one of the old 5 inch floppies though?

Anyway, old shit general, I'm especially interested if someone's got a physical terminal, that shit would be sweet

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Anonymous 2016-07-19 06:30:00 Post No.55645310
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>>55644750
I wonder if PCs can write them, I think they might.

Kind of wish there was a hard disk option for those O1s though, floppy disks are dreadful.

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>>55644750
>I'm especially interested if someone's got a physical terminal, that shit would be sweet
I have a bunch of busted ones laying around in hoarding, in desperate need of a restoration

Really want to get my TDV 2200 or VT102 up and running again especially.

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Anonymous 2016-07-19 10:08:51 Post No.55647139
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>>55644750
The smoke was probably a moving part relating to the disk drives.

Anonymous 2016-07-19 13:33:00 Post No.55649128
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Anonymous 2016-07-19 13:33:00 Post No.55649128 [Report]

friend of mine was throwing out a mac classic, so i rescued it, refurbed it a little and turned it on.

slow as shit. no networking, and the most advanced program on it was MacDraw.

i'm currently trying to fit a tiny lenovo netbook in the case where the mac motherboard once sat. when i can figure out a good way of turning the thing on through the mac's case i'll have a portable mac classic that runs windows 7.

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