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    From nelgin@80:774/10 to All on Tue Sep 17 03:59:14 2024
    Has anyone heard of an Osborne One computer?

    If so, do you have one?

    If so, does it have an OZROM chip?

    If so, so you have the disk for it?

    I assume nobody got beyond the 2nd question but you never know...
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  • From Amessyroom to nelgin on Thu Sep 26 20:30:01 2024
    Re: Osborne One
    By: nelgin to All on Tue Sep 17 2024 03:59 am

    Has anyone heard of an Osborne One computer?
    yes
    If so, do you have one?
    no
    If so, does it have an OZROM chip?
    what?
    If so, so you have the disk for it?
    nope. sorry
    I assume nobody got beyond the 2nd question but you never know...

    What's an ozrom chip ?
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  • From nelgin@80:774/10 to All on Fri Oct 4 01:19:57 2024
    On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:30:01 -0400
    "Amessyroom" (80:774/21) <Amessyroom@f21.n774.z80.fidonet> wrote:

    Re: Osborne One
    By: nelgin to All on Tue Sep 17 2024 03:59 am

    Has anyone heard of an Osborne One computer?
    yes
    If so, do you have one?
    no
    If so, does it have an OZROM chip?
    what?
    If so, so you have the disk for it?
    nope. sorry
    I assume nobody got beyond the 2nd question but you never
    know...

    What's an ozrom chip ?

    It's a third party rom to replace the factory rom that has additional
    features. Unfortunately it needs a floppy disk with utilities to make
    full use of it. It seems like I'm the only person in the world that has
    an ozrom that was in the Osborne 1 I purchased but there were no disks.
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  • From nelgin@80:774/10 to Amessyroom on Thu Apr 10 17:02:56 2025
    Re: Osborne One
    By: Amessyroom to nelgin on Thu Sep 26 2024 20:30:01

    What's an ozrom chip ?

    It's an additional daughterboard and ROM for the Osborne One that provides extra functions like a memory test but for some of it to be useful there's a disk that goes with it. It seems I'm the hero of the community since I seem to be the only person with that ROM. Unfortunately the system it came with did not have the disk that goes with it.
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  • From nelgin@80:774/10 to Amessyroom on Thu Apr 10 17:03:41 2025
    Re: Osborne One
    By: nelgin to Amessyroom on Thu Apr 10 2025 17:02:56

    What's an ozrom chip ?

    Oh, I answered this already, just didn't scroll down enough :)
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