Armchair Arcade: Quick Look - Osborne Executive

www.armchairarcade.com | Bill Loguidice provides a quick look at the audio-video capabilities of the Osborne Executive transportable computer. Recorded and uploaded from an iPad 2.

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Science & Technology

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• Osborne
• Cp/m
• Computer

[bytex666]

Hey, the Osborne-1 is featured heavily in the Telltale Sam&Max games, actually. It's a talking computer with a screen and two disk drives, one on each side of the screen.

I wonder what it's prime use really was back in the day? Like Medieval powerpoint presentations? With no sound, since the composite don't send out sound..Surely not for gaming?

[BillLoguidice]

@bytex666 These were business systems, though some found their way to homes. Most of these prebuilt CP/M systems came with great productivity software bundled in: word processing, spreadsheet, database, BASIC, etc. As for games, of course there were some, but the most high profile games were from Infocom, though other publishers, like Blue Chip and Personal Software were onboard. There was great public domain support for CP/M as well, and was the first true computer standard prior to DOS.

[BillLoguidice]

@bytex666 These were business systems, though some found their way to homes. Most of these prebuilt CP/M systems came with great productivity software bundled in: word processing, spreadsheet, database, BASIC, etc. As for games, of course there were some, but the most high profile games were from Infocom, though other publishers, like Blue Chip and Personal Software were onboard. There was great public domain support for CP/M as well, and was the first true computer standard prior to DOS.

[nathanallan1]

There were a handful of games released for your Executive and the Osborne 1, made by Portable Software. Got any of the magazines? I lucked out on a haul of Ozzy goodness, now I am after the games for it. Nice!

[BillLoguidice]

@nathanallan1 I do have some of the magazines, but no original game software. I do have some games that were converted over to the format, though.

[blacklily8]

I find the executive side of computing dull but intriguing in that it seems to exist in an entirely different world than the rest of the industry. I just got an email concerning a "PDF Booster" by Ericom Blaze. Huh? Who? What? Of course, no price--you have to send in for a "price quote." Typical of that market.

[TheDVDGamer]

do a side by side comparision with the osborne and the ipad2 ,