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this is one of a series of portraits I was hired to to for a software company. All of the portraits are of employees that have been chosen to represent the company in an ad campaign that will appear in the Behavioral Healthcare Magazine. I was hired to do the portraits and design and write the copy.
The Osborne Vixen was conceived as the replacement for the popular Osborne 01 portable computer, which was released three years earlier in 1981.
Originally, the Vixen consisted of a light-weight black plastic case, with two horizontally-mounted 400K floppy drives, and a 5-inch green CRT. The keyboard is permanently attached, and folds down to act as a stand to support and raise the front of the system.
A vast improvement over the Osborne 01, the Vixen 4 is smaller, lighter, and has higher-capacity floppy drives.
The small 5-inch (diagonal) CRT screen displays 24 lines of 80 characters each. Fortunately, it is very sharp and crisp, as the tiny 1mm-wide characters would be unreadable on a lesser monitor.
Unfortunately, in September of 1983, the Osborne Computer Company (OCC) ran into financial difficulties, declared bankruptcy, and the Vixen in its original incarnation was never publicly released.
It's not certain how a few of these never-released Vixens escaped into the wild.
As luck would have it, the Osborne Computer Company survived bankruptcy and in 1985 returned to viability, to officially release the Vixen into the public. This re-designed system has the drives mounted vertically to allow the use of a larger, 7-inch amber display. Other changes include an off-white case instead of black
Technical data:
Floppy drive specifications: 400K, DSDD, 40 tracks, 5 sectors/track, 1024 bytes each.
The Osborne Vixen 4 luggable; portable computer released by the Osborne Computer Corporation in 1984, as a followup to their Osborne 1 system.
73117 stands at Gatwick Airport while 33204 can be seen in the shadows on a UKF fertilizer train. 5/8/86.
Macintosh LC III with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse, running Microsoft Word 5.0.
Woman working on old computer doing her household budget looking at floppy disks
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I found these when clearing some stuff out - don't think I'll be using them again somehow!
The IBM 360 green card was absolutely indispensable when coding in assembler (and hacking core dumps for that matter)
Many a midnight hour...after cutting my teeth on a 360 and 370 it was off to ICL territory with a 1904, George 3, PLAN and all that, then GEC 4000 series...who remembers any of these?
Day 216.
Inexplicably the phone line just sorted itself out at about 2pm, thankfully before the engineer was dispatched. It may have been something to do with O2...
Waiting around half the day for the engineer I got on with clearing the attic room to turn it into a guest room/study. Currently the attic has loads of stuff that never got sorted after the move including my old laptop! I say old, I never did actually replace it.
Almost nine years old and still sort of hanging in there, I think this is testament to how well this obscure German company make computers and also how damn well I look after my stuff (take a look at what camera I use....)
It crashed when I tried a clean install of Ubuntu but until then it was working ok so I might see if anyone in eBay-land wants to take it off my hands... if not perhaps a museum.
Rowan's description: "Ah, it's an early-on turbo model, 90s, a 286 I think. IBM compatible"
Later (he's taken it to bits): it's a 386SX actually
In 2004, this exhibit had tons of old consoles and portable computers like this. This year it was far more about arcade cabinets (none of those in '04), LCD and LED portable handhelds and small desktop games, and just a few - 10 or less small consoles like this. It was good to see the SX-64, though, which premiered in '83, the year after Coleco's introduction. I've read up a bit on it online, and though I believe it was there in the '04 showing, I didn't know enough about it then to care.
The Oric Atmos Handbook by Peter Lupton and Frazer Robinson. This alternative to the official Oric Atmos manual was published in 1984 by Century Communications.
I made these in about 1980 I think. You can actually buy these for real now. I was ahead of my time...
Micro Ordinateur " COMMODORE 64 Personal Computer " , le manuel utilisateur, le lecteur-enregistreur de K7, le boîtier adaptateur péritélévision et l'alimentation.
Accessoires de l'Ordinateur MSX YAMAHA CX5MII : cable péritélévision + cordon de raccordement à un magnétophone + cable et boitier de connexion à un lecteur de disquettes ( Floppydisk Interface Cable YAMAHA FD-051 ) + souris MSX YAMAHA MU-01
If you remember these... You're getting old!
Technology is moving fast, but if you can remember this old technology you're probably starting to show your age...
The cover reads: If you remember these...
The inside reads: You're getting old!
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