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Date: 8 Jun 2025 06:44:20 GMT
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 22:41:35 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Ah ... I remember the Osborne - and Kaypro was good too.
>    Perfectly solid CP/M "portables".

I bought a couple of Osborne Executives when the Boston Globe was moving 
to PCs and getting rid of them. For Osborne it was too little, too late. 
They had killed sales of the 1 by announcing a new machine when it was 
still vaporware.  The 7" monitor made it more feasible.

The Kaypro II was a better deal but it followed the Osborne 1 by a year or 
so. I was a contractor/consultant at the time and being able to walk in 
with all my tools was a plus.