The Osborne 1 or OCC-1 was the first portable computer to get to market and become a commercial success. Released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation the unit weighed in at a hefty 23.5lb and cost a whopping $1795. Housed in a sewing machine sized box, the unit comprised …
Near the end of the TRS-80 product run came the Tandy TRS-80 Model 4 from Tandy / Radio Shack. Introduced in 1983, it was an upgrade from the Model 3 in that it ran at a blazing 4 MHz using a Zilog Z80 processor and had a display of 80 …
Released in January of 1980 at a retail price of $3250.00, the HP-85 personal computer was a self-contained system, designed to be portable for the small computer user or the technical professional. The HP-85 resembles the IBM 5100 physically and was based on Hewlett Packard’s 8-bit microprocessor technology. The system …
One of the more iconic machines in computing history is headed for the auction block soon. On October 9th, 2012 Christie’s will be including an Apple 1 in its sale. Only around 200 Apple 1’s were designed and hand built by Steve Wozniak, partner of Steve Jobs at Apple, and …
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COMMODORE 64 USER’S GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. SETUP 1.1. Unpacking and Connecting the Commodore 64 1.2. Installation 1.3. Optional Connections 1.4. Operation 1.5. Color Adjustment 2. GETTING STARTED 2.1. Keyboard 2.2. Back to Normal 2.3. Loading and Saving Programs 2.4. PRINT and Calculations 2.5. Precedence …
The Gazelle II from Seattle Computer is an extremely fast microcomputer. It is based on the 10 MHz Intel 8086 CPU and uses a proprietary memory design which enables the Gazelle II to achieve processing speeds and throughput comparable to many minicomputers. The system, housed in a cabinet with …
Instruction manual for the RCA COSMAC VIP computer from 1978.
This is the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 5 from 1976. It featured byte saving programming tricks for the 8080, the Astral 2000 Microcomputer, a report on AMI prototype boards, and the VT-4000 video terminal.
Engineering drawings for the Osborne Vixen circa 1983.
