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[Bill Sudbrink]

woodelf wrote:
>
> Bill Sudbrink wrote:
>
> >OK Sellam, come clean.  What have you managed to acquire?
> >
> The hard copy must be 3 or 4 lbs at least.  Ducks and runs ...

I have a good bit more than that!

Three copy paper boxes full of documentation (appropriate because a lot
of the originally supplied OSI docs were just photocopies, stapled together)
and two more full of the "glossy" docs.  The "glossy" docs being the extra
books that they sold, the SAMs manuals, the marketing lit that they also
sold
(did any other company sell their product description pamphlets?) and the
few
price sheets and pages that they gave away.  I also have some product
descriptions and price sheets for a couple of OSI third party add-on
companies
in those boxes.

> Ben alias woodelf
> PS. The impressive thing is that the people with the large computer
> collections have vast amounts of knowlage about the computers
> they have. Something that a average collector does not seem to have
> now days.

Well, I like to think that I know a few things about OSI but I'll take
this opportunity to make a confession.  I've said several times on this
list that you can't make a C4P into a C4P-MF by just adding a 470 board
to it.  This was told to me in 1981 by a tech at a local OSI reseller,
The Math Box.  I never checked it out for myself.  Well, I just did (last
week) and (with OS-65D v3.3) it works just fine as far as I can tell.  I
don't know if I misunderstood what the guy was telling me back then or if
he was just wrong.  I'm thinking maybe that the 470s came adjusted from
the factory for 8 inch floppy timing and he was trying to tell me that
you couldn't use one with 5 1/4 inch drives without modifications.

Glad to get that off my chest,
Bill