Well I should chime in here as I bought the original eBay item and collected it a couple of months back. Sold by a really nice chap who used to run a business servicing DEC equipment back in the day. This machine belonged to his business partner who recently died and sold on behalf of his widow...
Anyone have physical copies they are willing to mail to the UK?
My Osborne 1 project has come to the stage where I just need system disks...
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?38700-Osborne-1-restoration
Thanks,
Richard
Been fighting with a non-working Ozzy for the best part of the day.
Showed no signs of life other than a quite repetitive chirp from the PSU. Voltages OK when the CPU board is disconnected.
Traced the problem to a CCT tant capacitor C71 on the +12V rail to ground. PSU was obviously struggling...
Sorry if there is an obvious answer to this but here goes: -
I've recently acquired an IBM 5155 with two floppy drives and DOS 3.3. I'm eager to get something running on it.
How do I transfer files (or even better, folders) to one of the drives of my 5155 via the serial port?
I honestly thought...
Hello all,
I've recently acquired a model III (diskless version :() in generally excellent cosmetic condition but it's not working.
Powering on gives me a blank screen with flyback lines when the brightness is turned up but nothing else.
I've changes the usual X2 capacitors on the PSU and...
As per title really. I've acquired a non-disk version with 16K RAM here in the UK.
Cosmetically it's in excellent condition. Sold as non-working. I haven't powered it up yet as PSU needs work.
Initial route around shows the usual blown caps on the PSU (the PSU looks absolutely identical to my...
Hi - can anyone identify this expansion board that is fitted to my recently acquired Osborne here in the UK?
The machine is in good general shape but the PSU needs attention so I can't power-up just yet.
The Z80 and ROM are removed from the main logic board and sit on this board with...
Hello all,
Just found this site.
Currently have the following at hand: -
Acorn Atom
Acorn BBC B x 4
Apple ][ Europlus
Atari 800 x 3
Atari VCS
Commodore PET 2001 & 3040:
Commodore VIC-20
Grundy NewBrain - my original computer!
Heathkit ET-3400
Intel...