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I have trouble comprehending the tiny greenscreen on that as being useful in any way.

• acqq 11y ago
  24 lines of 54 characters, luxury. :) I've programmed on the Z80 computer with only 32 characters per line (although bigger). Not to mention my HP calculator with even much less. Or keying in the machine instructions bit-by-bit without the screen at all, see another post. And that Osborne had a screen with 5 inch diagonal, more than my current mobile phone. Now I've counted, I see only 16 lines on it horizontally, but the aspect ratio is not the same. I can imagine nobody working on that Osborne was able to sit straight.
• smacktoward 11y ago
  I dug an old Osborne portable out of the trash when my school threw a bunch of them away back in the late '80s. It was actually pretty usable! Remember, back then small, low-res displays were the norm, not the exception. Even the first Mac, which was revolutionary for its focus on graphics, only had a 9" black-and-white display.
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