Xref: utzoo comp.misc:12837 comp.sys.misc:3427 comp.os.misc:1854 comp.sys.apple2:17085 comp.sys.cbm:7166 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Ohio Scientific Message-ID: <1991Jun5.195910.28934@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Jun 91 19:59:10 GMT References: <157796@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1991May21.210947.23057@endeavor.intel.com> <1991May22.202435.24605@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 16 In article <157796@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes: >In article rwelch@isis.cs.du.edu (Randy S. Welch) writes: >>For it's day it was a decent system. > >Are we talking about the same machines here? I used OSI Challanger systems of >various flavors for three years, and they were just plain junk. Far inferior >to the systems you could get from Altair, Imsai, Processor Tech, or SWTPC at >the time of the C1P, Hmm... The C1P and its caseless cousing the SuperBoard were just about the cheapest computers on the market at the time. The only things cheaper were those Ace computer kits which had 2K of RAM and a membrane keyboard with far too few keys and no expandability. The IMSAI may have been a better machine, but it cost a heck of a lot more, too. My C1P was fine as a "first" computer for a high school kid.