Osborne 1 for $1000?

From: Scott Walde <scott_at_saskatoon.com>
Date: Fri Apr 24 08:51:59 1998

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:

> A TRS-80 Model 3 runs CP/M only with extensive modifications. The
> easiest such modification was the Model 4 upgrade several years
> later entailing a motherboard replacement (and no, you didn't get to
> keep the old parts).

Actually, the only requirement for the original motherboard was that the
service shop had to drill a hole through it. (Size may have been
specified, I don't know.) In any case, I have several M3 motherboards
with a hole drilled through a ground plane. (And still quite functional.)

> Ward Griffiths

ttyl
srw
Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 08:51:59 BST