Xref: utzoo comp.misc:12870 comp.sys.misc:3439 comp.os.misc:1859 comp.sys.apple2:17191 comp.sys.cbm:7176 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!pdxgate!qiclab!techbook!fzsitvay From: fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Ohio Scientific Message-ID: <1991Jun7.050620.11786@techbook.com> Date: 7 Jun 91 05:06:20 GMT References: <1991Jun5.195910.28934@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <158318@pyramid.pyramid.com> Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 38 In article <158318@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes: >>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 AIM-65 was available at the same time; as a first computer for a high- >school kid I think it would have been superior. > > i don't really think the aim-65 would be much better, and at any rate cost a lot more than the osi did for the same capabilities. contrary to what some people here think, the osi was one of the better computers at the time, especially when you look at price/performance or bang/buck ratios. the memory map was a bit screwy, the molex pins on the backplane would get dirty from time to time, and the operating system was extremely strange, but overall it still was not a bad little machine. my C2-8p still works 14 years after it was built. a whopping 48k RAM and its single 8 inch disk drive. (that disk system it had was very fast, since it essentially did track buffering.) the c1p was, by comparison, a joke. however, it was perhaps the cheapest thing around until the sinclairs showed up. (by the by, it doesn't take much to upgrade a c1p into the equivalent of a c2 or c4. also, a lot of c1p systems found there way into process control applications. you basically had a microcontroller with BASIC and a keyboard for $200-$300. not bad for late-seventies/early 80s.) -- fzsitvay@techbook.COM - but don't quote me on that.... No wonder I can't hold a regular sleeping schedule. My subconcious mind knows we are only one well-placed bullet from having Quayle as president.