Osborne 1 Computer Part 3 - Demonstration and Review 

I took my Osborne on a train, bad idea. It went crazy, and started eating .bat files.

9:40 I like how the 'p' turns to 'q' when moving left :-)

That's simply a gorgeous looking computer.

Brought back lots of memories when I had one. If I remember correctly, to enter text in Supercalc put a quote mark before the text. Wordstar used the control keys with letters for commands.

Damn, I'm addicted to your restoration videos now.

"And no, it won't run Crysis. So don't ask!" Made me laugh.

5:39 (Raises Hand) 5:43 (Lowers Hand)

I can just imagine feeling like a giga-Chad walking around with one of these instead of a briefcase in the early 80's lol

The ASCII-art animation when PACMAN died was just awesome! Thanks for another [literally] amazing video.

This is one of my favorite restoration/ vintage tech channels. I was a major league tech nerd when this stuff was cutting edge, so it's always fun to take a look back at what we thought was "high tech". I always look forward to these videos.

Try CTRL-H for backspace. That was pretty common for that in those days. (I wrote Games Pack I for the TRS-80, so I was around then :)

Parking my Porsche 928... Putting on my Turbo glasses... Getting a nice glass of expensive champagne... Caressing the smooth black marble of my work desk... Lighting my cigar with a golden lighter... Checking the time on my golden Casio watch... Turning on my Osborne computer... TIME FOR SOME STOCK MARKET ACTION "Greed is good"

"And no, it won't run Crysis" Well you didn't even try to run it.

I remember carrying CRT monitors for lan party :F when someone asked you "do you even lift" you answer - yes 21" CRT

This was one of my favorite series you've done yet. Very informative, with lots of very interesting context and background. I also like that you showed the mistakes you made. This would be great to see in the future. :) Thanks for doing what you do!

This was a great 3 part series. Keep doing these things. I love how you make everything sound interesting.

LCD screen? You mean CRT screen I presume.

Next Week- 8-Bit guy gets Crysis to run on an Osborne

I've got one of these I've been working on for a little while. Thanks so much for posting this series. It was a great help!!

Oh man, your intro gives me such a warm 80s feeling (the rest is not bad either).

Wow being a patreon is awesome. Good video David.

7:05 "8BIT GUY" is not to long for CP/M, but it contains a separator (a space).

This is my favorite channel on RU-vid by far, really top notch content

"Thanks goes out to Brendon for sending me these photos of his unit" /snicker

I knew a company that had a few hundred of them. They threw them out. Ouch!

Hey! You only had a handful of disks, I had a whole box!

New in- and outro is quite majestical

Dude it does not matter how parts this needs , the most important thing how useful and entertaining is!

FYI: CP/M first ran on Intel 8080 systems like the MITS Altair. The Z-80 was a clone of the 8080 with some improvements by an upstart named Zilog. Both CPUs ran the same machine language, though code optimized for Z80 ran faster on that platform. The Z80 postdated the Intel 8080 on release by about two years.

CP/M was actually designed to run on an intel 8080. it has no z80 instructions in it but since the z80 instruction set was a superset off the 8080 instruction set, the z80 could run cp/m.

That computeriser race was very exciting. You won convincingly! I want one!

Thank you so much for taking your time to deal with the 8-bit systems, especially for the Z-80. I still have two Osborne 1's, a Kaypro 2, a Kaypro II., and a Kaypro 10, and a "home-built CP/M system that I cannot remember what it was. I also purchased the Universal disk formatter for most CP/M systems. Still, I learned Basic from a Timex Sinclair 1000, a 1500, and the 2068. Trough those AND CP/M I learned how to code in machine language. So many years ago, and so much has been forgotten - but those machines still live in my house. Again, thank you for the memories.

You're probably up to your ears in suggestions for the whole retrobright debacle, so here's my nickle. As an auto detailing freak and retro hifi restoration nerd, the automotive world can help you out quite a bit. I never touch plastics with an ammonia based cleaner or a paper towel. SEM makes a great plastic prep and degreaser that will be kind to old plastics. A headlight restoration kit makes for a wonderful clear plastic detailer, I often use the polish for record player covers. Whenever cleaning or polishing ANYTHING, use a microfiber cloth. They're cheap and don't install scratches. Another tip is to treat the plastics after retrobrighting with a UV protectant. I use water based if I can, 303 convertible top protectant and VinylX are some of my favorites. They'll also help to even out the color. Marbling like on the keys can be taken out with some plastic polish, but beware that since it is a mild abrasive, the lettering can come off if it's pad printed on. Doubt you'll see this or make it this far, but I do enjoy the videos. Thanks for your hard work.

Never said I NEED IT so fast before

One of the first three computers I ever touched. My friend and I stayed up many nights playing Colossal Cave text adventure! Thanks for the great videos!!!

Great detailed series of videos. Thanks.

The guy on the left has two file folders, a news magazine, and a sandwich. The guy on the right has the OSBORNE 1®, a fully functio--*BUT DOES HE HAVE A SANDWICH??*

The kaypro did have a program called uniform, that allowed it to read other format disks

This was great, thank you 8bitguy

enjoyed all 3 parts. thanks for uploading

"release" is misspelled at 0:55 (I looked for comments saying this already and didn't see any, so I thought I'd point it out, heh)

Saw you on LinusTechTips!!😃😃😃

I loved this 3 video series. A big thanks!!!

I loved using my OS1 - and my Vixen. Great PCs for their day. Thanks for the video!

Oh boy, the last part of something AND an 8-Bit Guy video, my day is saved :D

Still more ports than the MacBook...

An awesome machine. Great series, 8 bit guy!

I love your videos! Thanks for all your efforts to bring us these vintage machines. :-)

"it won't run crysis so don't ask". you made me laugh real loud lol

I think that the IBM 5100, was the first portable computer. It was introduced in 1975.

Great video . . . . I really like your problem-solving approach. Somewhere in my garage CP/M archives, I have translation software that will enable writing the formats for most of the CP/M computers that were made in the early 1980's. I'll let you know when I find it.

Thank you very much! It was very interesting to watch all three videos =)

But... _Will it run Crysis?_

You didn't mention the most sold CP/M computer ever: the Microsoft CP/M Softcard for the Apple II :) At 3:00 you say that it has a "LCD screen" :)

Great little series of videos.

The advancement in tech is amazing. We made computers so user friendly today! You had to study and use the older computers a lot to navigate or accomplish anything. Absolutely amazing. I love it

2:40 "The guy on the left doesn't stand a chance."

I think it's Control-H in Wordstar... but it's been 25 years so I could be wrong!

your channel cheers me up more than any other

Woo! I've been waiting for this!

5:39 - "And no, it won't run Crysis, so don't ask." I just busted out laughing! 🤣

Jeez, there are as many Pac-Pac-Pac-Man clones out there, if not more than grains of sand in the desert... That ladder game reminded me very much of that Namco game, Mappy. I'd take the marbled plastic over gross yellowed any day, no offense Clint.

Awesome! Can't wait for the Commodore history

Man I love this freaking channel. I remember reading compute magazine as a kid and seeing adds for this computer and always wondering what they were like. I am off to check out videos on the IMSAI 8080....I had never heard of that machine till this video so thanks for the info.

new intro is fire.

Hi there, Paulo from Brazil 😃 Never done any retrobright restorations, but I came with an idea. You could use glass instead of plastic wrapping, and between the glass and the parts, some kind of spacer. Don't know, maybe a rubber band or some washers. Just a little bit of my thoughts.

Great coverage as usual! Thanks for the vid! :D

This may be one of the coolest looking computers I’ve ever seen. I always loved the Apple II, the original Titanium MacBook Pro, etc. But I had never heard of the Osborne until this series. The “ease of use” for 1981 is amazing. Dual disk drives, even storage for extra discs, full size keyboard, etc. and even the design of the front of the computer: I love it all. I need to look into trying to buy one just to play around with, although I don’t know the programming language (started with MS-DOS). Looks simple enough though. Thanks for this series David!

Nice videos! Keep it up!

7:36 It is right there in front: ^G deletes character to right. Backspace should be ^H.

In the old days, I use to have one of these, I used it so much I think I could still find my way around WordStar. Wow, what a blast for the past, thank you.

Keep these videos coming!!

is there a longer version of the intro song? i love it haha

3:06 lcd screen? thought it was a cathode ray tube

This is great. This was the first computer I worked with. I was a Supercalc wizard. The syntax to PIP always struck me as backwards. I can’t believe how small the screen was. Thanks for this.

I love this new intro! :)

"It won't run Crysis, so don't ask" lmao

“And no it won’t even run Cyris” Omega 3000: hold my beer

Its incredible to see the spreadsheet, i would love to see other business applications from 70s 80s.

A Great documentary about a great period of computer hardware. It's fun to see it work and how "portable" it was.

11:23 "R..... the reset butt" 😂

but can it run Doom? (I'm sure some lunatic is going to try that)

This was a great series.

I have fond memories of growing up with a Kaypro IIx in the house. Your model is in fabulous condition cosmetically. I wish I still had mine.

Ladder looks like a Lode Runner clone.

0:58 'First Relase' Pobodys Neftect. Disclaimer: I spelled it wrong on porpoise.

What a blast from the past! We bought an OS1 in Houston in 1983. Included a 2 hr how to class in which the instructor basically explained in detail how info was put into sectors on a floppy and how to format said floppy. Its encyclopedic manual was written in geek speak that sounded like it was poorly translated from Japanese. We moved to NY and I joined a Kaypro user group. Thank God for user groups where engineers explained to the rest of us how to use computers and printers. There were all sorts of tips and tricks, like getting twice the storage from the less than 100K floppy by formatting the back side, computer bulletin boards that offered free non graphical games and utilities (I think there was a translator utility that allowed me to read kaypro disks, all pre internet), and a magazine. Osborne briefly published a magazine with a cover pic of a guy sitting on a mountaintop and running the OS1 off a battery! It was either Arthur C Clarke or Stanley Kubrick that supposedly wrote part of the 2001 Space Odyssey screenplay on an Osborne while in...Cyprus? And sent it via modem to Hollywood. No doubt at 8 bps over a landline. And all of the operating system ran in a compact but classy 64k of ram! It may seem spartan by today's standards, but it was elegant and ordered and not as prone to the glitches of today's bloated operating systems. I loved that 30lb "sewing machine." It opened up a whole new world to me.

Man what a great video. I'm 46 and this video took me back to the days of my Tandy 1000 from radio shack. The old days of computing where fun but compared to today it's like starting a fire with two sticks vs a lighter.

Will it run MS Paint?

0:55 first relase 1974

Watching this on my computer makes me value it more than ever :)))))))))

Great video thanks a lot...I had also one in the eighties....great to see this baby again..greetings from Hungary !!!

I wonder how many thousands of diskettes would it take to even transfer Crysis on it... and how many hard drives would it take to fit it... and how many internal upgrades would it take to actually make it run Windows.... basically you can fit a normal mini PC and an Nvidia Titan in there, then scare your friends by running a recent AAA game on it... wouldn't that be a fun project?

9:23 Why are you puting so much emphasis on the 'h' ?

CP/M was designed for the Intel 8080 initially as well as the Zilog Z80. There were a number of programs that could be be used to reformat disks in the various compute formats, the most well known being Uniform. Great videos, by the way!

This is the machine that got me through college in the 80s. When typing in the word doc you could only see part of the document at a time because of the screen size, but you get used to it. Hooked to my okidata daisy wheel printer, my papers looked great to my profs.

There goes another 15 minutes of sleep

But can it run Oregon Trail?

I really love your intro song. I want it as a ringtone sooo bad

Bonus discs! Oh my god, I used to have several of those that I used on my Atari 800. I completely forgot about those. Takes me back seeing that again.