The Osborne 1 (as seen in Terry Stewart's computer collection)

[@DavidWeidlich]

Thanks for the video. I just powered up my old Osborne II. It worked a few years ago when I tried it. This time, I couldn't get any disks to boot up. Then smoke start pouring out of the vent. Bad sign. I love this computer. It got me through grad school. I still have all the papers I wrote on diskettes. I would occasionally drag it to the library and plug it in.

[@tezzaNZ]

Yea, My Osborne smoked the first time I turned it on too. It will be the RIFA AC filter capacitors. Quite easy to replace, and you might find the computer still actually works, even if they have blown.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

It's hard to believe how far we've come in the area of portable computing. Not only are modern portable computers much Much MUCH more powerful, but they are lighter by a huge factor and _actually_ portable in that they do not require a power socket. Heck, there's one in your pocket and possibly on your wrist!

[@tezzaNZ]

...and soon to be in the clothes you wear!

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@tezzaNZAnd when nanoprobes become an actual thing, "things you eat"!

[@tarstarkusz]

Great video Terry Is there any provision to expand the RAM beyond 64k, like some kind of bankswitching scheme? The screen width seems to work pretty well. Seems clear and easy to read. Normally it display 52 characters, but it can also display 128 characters. Even young eyes I would think would have a problem reading that. It's a shame they didn't just turn the drives vertical and put a larger screen in it. If you were young, the 52 characters aren't too bad. But if you're 40 or older, you will be hard pressed to use that screen. Even if you are young, you have to look down to see it, which is uncomfortable and worse, is that you really couldn't expect anyone to work for long periods of time with the small screen. When I bought my first computer, I bought a used one, a Compaq luggable. I bought it from a used computer store in center city Philadelphia. There's nowhere to park. So I ended up parking like 6 or 8 blocks from the store. So my first day of PC ownership involved lugging that 30 pound computer upwards of a mile to get to the cheap parking area where my car was. The 9" green screen on it was excellent, at least to my then 24 year old eyes.

[@tezzaNZ]

Thanks. I don't think it was ever bankswitched. Not the Osborne 1 anyway. Yes, the first Kaypro did just that. Put a larger screen in and had vertical drives (at least initially). Thanks for those luggable memories.

[@tarstarkusz]

4:32 "Buy our computer and you're gonna die"

[@26c62626yamashita]

画面小さくて　使いにくくありませんか？健康に気をつけて無理しないで　がんばってほしいです。

[@cygil1]

There were precisely zero people carrying around an Osbourne 1 portable like a briefcase in 1981, unless they were in training to become Olympic weightlifters!. Advertising lies again.

[@tezzaNZ]

Haha. Yes adverts are always selling the dream.

[@conorcobalt4624]

Just want you to know that I appreciate you showing off some old tech, that's cool, but you have 8300 subs on this channel. you should at least double check that you aren't mr roboto in the opening scene friend. I almost gave you a thumbs down and left, luckily chat saved the loss and since no one else was bitching about that disaster I figured it would go away, and it did to anyone who might see this. Thanks, but please, its only a

[@tezzaNZ]

Yes, I am Mr Robo in that first scene but believe me the audio was way worse before. The video is a revamp of a very low res video done 10 years ago where the audio was crap. It's better but yea, AI was used to enhance the existing audio and it's not perfect. I'm not too worried. These are legacy videos, and I just wanted to talk about some famous models, not to be a KZbinr in the sense of what it means today. It was always going to be a limited series. Cheers!