* Posts by osdex

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Proprietary OS source code LEAKED to web – from 40 years ago

osdex
FAIL

The decline of reliability

+1 for the Osborne 1! I found a mint condition one at a garage sale recently for $20, that included all the original software, manuals, cables, keyboard overlays, sales receipt, and an unopened pearl programming package. This computer boots fast, is built like a tank, and everything is straight forward and easy. All those flimsy floppy discs it came with still work great and have accurately stored their "volatile" information.

What are they doing these days, except making next year's garbage? When modern computers can't even carry out basic tasks without freezing up or blowing a power supply, it should drive these companies to shame. This 32 year old Osborne is more reliable than all of them put together. The funny thing is, I found a Wordstar document on one of the discs, and in it the author said they were "using the ancient Osborne to write, because my new computer is broken."

That says it all.