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1. Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 17:15:25 JST Scott Williams 🐧

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   • Studio 8502 :verified:

   @mos_8502 I have one! Belonged to my grandfather and it's the first family computer we had! Still all works!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 17:15:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Studio 8502 :verified:

     @vwbusguy @mos_8502 “Personal computer… belonged to my grandfather”… now I feel old :)

   • Studio 8502 :verified: (mos_8502@oldbytes.space)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 17:15:26 JST Studio 8502 :verified:

     All right kids, gather round. This here is an Osbourne 1, the first really successful portable personal computer. It ran CP/M, had 64KB of RAM and two 90KB(!) single sided, single-density 5¼" floppy disks, and provided you with a real keyboard and a 5" monochrome CRT display that showed 52 columns of ASCII text.

     Yes, people actually used that tiny little screen. But there *was* an upgrade you could install so you could use a monochrome CRT monitor with 80 columns, or you could connect a real serial terminal to it and use it that way.