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Personally, I'm wondering how many on HN actually owned an Osborne machine.
by gonzo 12y ago
Personally, I'm wondering how many on HN actually owned an Osborne machine.
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoI never owned one. But touched one when they were sold in shops.
- bigiain 12y agoMe. (Well, my Dad...) I learnt _huge_ amount pretty much accidentally from that machine and the user manual that came with it. Nobody told me at 12 or 14 years old that kids weren't supposed to solder together a handful of parts to add a joystick to the parallel port and write Z80 assembler routines to speed up the inner loops of games written in basic.
- empressplay 12y agoI still have one! Flyback is shot on the CRT though =(
- jacquesm 12y agoHeat and vibration rubbing the coil wires against each other is what kills flyback transformers, you can usually get replacements for about $50 or so and replacing them isn't hard.