Still seeking OSI Challenger (any model)

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Jun 20 03:15:01 2003

--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> I'm still in the market for any model of Ohio Scientific Challenger
> computer.
>
> If you've got one to sell or trade, please contact me directly.

Can't help you... I gave my C4P motherboard to Hans about four years
ago. Never had the rest of the computer.

I would just like to play with a C-III sometime... I don't really
need to *own* one, but I'd like to play with one for nostalgia's
sake - a family friend had one long, long ago (that he bought new,
but was trashed when he loaned it out to a youth organization for
education/training).

Mostly, all I ever did with it was to fire up BASIC on, ISTR, the 6502,
and fiddle around. I did help the owner optimize a program he wrote to
help automate part of his job at the Gas Company - we rewrote the
inner loop in 6502 assembler and called it from a USR() routine.

I just remember thinking how cool it was to run multiple processor
architectures in the same box.

I wonder how hard it would be to build an emulator for it... each
processor has multiple emulator code bases - the trick would be
getting the I/O coded up enough to run the OS... oh, yeah... a
copy of the ROMs and OS would be kinda handy.

-ethan
Received on Fri Jun 20 2003 - 03:15:01 BST