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I just received my Ohio Scientific Challenger 2P and it powers up. Can't get past the memory select but I think it is loose RAM, or something in that area.

For those debating on the vintage-computer forum, you best start using it. I just scored a serious collectors item for only $85. I stopped adding to my collection 2 years ago, but couldn't pass up a deal like that.

Vince
 
Vince,

I have a OSI Challenger 1P, now working after a RAM fix.

Do you have a pic of your score?

Tez
 
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Fresh picture. It is in good (not great) condition. It powers up to C/G/M / when it should be C/G/M? M does display addresses for monitor input, C starts to ask memory size but gets it wrong.

Unicorn Electronics sells the 2102 SRAMS for $1.45 each. There are 32 of them.

Vince
 
Good one.

I'm always a little confused about the nomenclature used by OSI for it's Challenger range (IP being later models than Challenger-II) . It doesn't seem logical. Mark Csele does cover it in his Challenger Site, which no doubt you are aware of.

Interestingly, I saw a Challenger 2P come up for sale here in NZ in my own home town even. Had I won the auction I could have driven round and collected it. It was a bright orange colour. I thought the previous owner might have painted it, but looking at the bright colours they seem to come out in, maybe not?

I started to bid for it, but at that stage I didn't realise how valuable it might have been. I think I stopped bidding at about $25 NZ ($18 US) and let it go to the other guy.

Tez
 
Here in Norway, somebody listed a listing about giving away a small museum of computers from before 1980 (take-as-much-as-you'd-like kind of giving away). The "sellers" got so many replies that they postponed the listing so they could organize a day everybody could get there there and see/take.

The story behind is a little sad, but the curent owners surely don't really know the value of what they've inherited.
 
per said:
Here in Norway, somebody listed a listing about giving away a small museum of computers from before 1980 (take-as-much-as-you'd-like kind of giving away). The "sellers" got so many replies that they postponed the listing so they could organize a day everybody could get there there and see/take.

The story behind is a little sad, but the curent owners surely don't really know the value of what they've inherited.
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Shhhhh!! Or on the other hand, not many norwegians here..
 
Congratulations Vince!

Congratulations Vince!

Vince,

Great win on the C2P.

My first computer was a C2P, bought with money I earned in High School working at Disney World.

The C2P was the 'expandable' computer of the OSI desktop line. The C1P was a single board, the C2P had a real bus. At the time the C2P was known to have the fastest BASIC interpreter. Alas, I gave away my C2P many years ago, but bought a C1P at a hamfest a year ago.

Have fun with it.

-Crawford
 
Ohio Scientific Challenger III

Ohio Scientific Challenger III

Hej!

Jag har en sådan + en CIFER Terminal

Kan du vara intresserad elelr vet du någon....?

Med vänlig hälsning

Mats J C Wiman
Översättare/Übersetzer/translator/traducteur/traductor
Träsk 201
87297 Skog
Tel 0612-54112
Fax 0612-54181
SKYPE: MatsWiman
 
per said:
Here in Norway, somebody listed a listing about giving away a small museum of computers from before 1980 (take-as-much-as-you'd-like kind of giving away). The "sellers" got so many replies that they postponed the listing so they could organize a day everybody could get there there and see/take.

The story behind is a little sad, but the curent owners surely don't really know the value of what they've inherited.
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Interesting - when I check the usual "used equipment buy-and-sell" here in Norway, I can only find a few C-64s, a few Amigas but nothing else. Where do the Norwegian collectors announce their collectibles for sale?
 
MatsWiman said:
Hej!

Jag har en sådan + en CIFER Terminal

Kan du vara intresserad elelr vet du någon....?

Med vänlig hälsning

Mats J C Wiman
Översättare/Übersetzer/translator/traducteur/traductor
Träsk 201
87297 Skog
Tel 0612-54112
Fax 0612-54181
SKYPE: MatsWiman
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Hvorfor dukker alle godbitene alltid opp i Sverrige?? Jeg skulle bare ønske noe lignende hendte i Norge.

Jeg får vel bare være tålmodig...
 
tingo said:
Interesting - when I check the usual "used equipment buy-and-sell" here in Norway, I can only find a few C-64s, a few Amigas but nothing else. Where do the Norwegian collectors announce their collectibles for sale?
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I don't really think they have it listed anymore... It was on finn.no this spring, but I can't find it anymore either. I don't really think too much of it was working because the way it was stored.
 
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