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Notes |
Manufacturer |
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Model |
Osborne Executive |
Date Launched |
Early 1983 |
Price |
Approx. £1500 |
Microprocessor type |
Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz |
ROM size |
8 kilobytes |
Standard RAM |
124 kilobytes |
Maximum RAM |
384 kilobytes |
Keyboard type |
Typewriter style with separate numeric pad. Reported to have a poor action. |
Supplied language |
Microsoft MBASIC 5.22 and Compiler Systems CBASIC 2 (both loaded from disc). |
Text resolution |
24 lines of 80 characters on built-in display |
Graphics resolution |
No graphics except character symbols |
Colours available |
Monochrome (amber) |
Sound |
Beeper |
Cassette load speed |
Not applicable (built-in disc drives). |
Dimensions (mm) |
500 x 500 x 220 (closed) |
Special features |
A complete computer with: |
Good points |
A genuinely portable and fully specified desktop computer. |
Bad points |
Weighing 28 pounds it was a bit heavy to be 'portable'. |
How successful? |
The Osborne Executive seems to have been reasonably popular as a successor to the Osborne 1 initially. |
Comments |
The Executive was an evolutionary update of the successful Osborne 1 portable computer, with more memory, a larger screen and better facilities to act as a remote terminal for mainframe computers. |
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