[earleybird]

"nobody had anything near as convenient as the Osborne 1."

I had/still have an Osbourne 1 and would occasionally lug it from home to work. At almost 25 lbs it was a workout. 10 minute walk to the Seabus and then another almost 10 min walk to the office in downtown Vancouver.

I implemented a threaded interpreter [0] on it where the source was spread over 3 floppies. To assemble it I ran the 3 floppies through a small basic program that stripped all the comments out wrote it to a single floppy.

In the office it was occasionally referred to as 'the nose burn' since the 5" screen was rather small and some had to get close to the screen to read it.

It was sufficient to write resumes for myself and a sibling.

[0] https://sinclairql.speccy.org/archivo/docs/books/Threaded_in...

[MaggieL]

> I implemented a threaded interpreter [0] on it where the source was spread over 3 floppies. To assemble it I ran the 3 floppies through a small basic program that stripped all the comments out wrote it to a single floppy. > I had keyed the machine code to the CP/M version of figForth in on my Xitan Alpha. I sent it over a serial line to pip running on my Osborne after I bought one. Patched the console vectors and it was up and running.