richard@aplvax.UUCP (06/30/83)
I have owned an Osborne I for about eight months, and have reached that inevitable stage where I want to upgrade. Since my Osborne came with single density disk drives, they will be my first target. I have just ordered a double density upgrade kit from a company called Osmosis in San Francisco. The kit is supposed to be idiot-proof, requiring only that I plug in a few connectors. It sells for only $195, at least a hundred dollars below the lowest dealer quote I received. Another possibility is a RAM disk emulator called DriveC (sold I think by a small outfit of the same name) that uses the IEEE488 interface and slides comfortably into one of the two diskette storage slots on the front of the computer. Does anyone have any info to share about either of these companies or products? I would also appreciate *any* info about: - interfacing external floppies or hard disks to the IEEE488 port. How do I modify CPM to handle this? - any other interesting (and affordable) Osborne after-market upgrades and/or accessories that you know about. Thanks! Rich Greenberg