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Osborne Odyssey display at Computer History Museum event
Mar 25, 2004

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Lee Felsenstein at the DigiBarn Exhibit

On the evening of March 25, 2004 the DigiBarn contributed a special display of Osborne computers and associated artifacts for the Computer History Museum's Osborne Odyssey event, featuring panelsts John Markoff, Lee Felsenstein, Richard Frank and Jack Melchor. Many thanks to Bill Goldberg for contributing Osborne artifacts, helping get the system running and co-hosting the event.

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Supercalc running on the Osborne 1
external monitor
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Folks with co-host Bill Goldberg
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Sol-20 at the Digibarn exhibit
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DigiBarn Curator Bruce Damer
and co-host of the exhibit Bill Goldberg
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Squinting to see WordStar on the 5 inch
CRT in the Osborne 1
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The Panel

 
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John Tool introduces the panelists
 
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John Markoff, moderator
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Fire in the Valley, early version
written on Osborne
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Photos of Adam Osborne and
an early Osborne ad in Fire
in the Valley
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Lee takes the podium
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A much younger Lee

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Lee in engineer's cap with Sols
at West Coast Computer Faire

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All the parts that made up the
prototype Osborne
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Osborne keyboard case/front bezel
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Adam Osborne and Lee in Japan
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Assembled Osborne folks
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System Signing Ceremony

 
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"Pull out the guts... screw in the brains"
written on our Sol-20 by Lee
Felsenstein
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"The guy on the left doesn't stand a chance"...
(he's 23.5 lbs heavier!)
written on our Osborne 1 by Lee Felsenstein

See Also:


Osborne Universe: our collection of artifacts
from Osborne Computer Corporation

Our Sol-20 computer

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