Osborne One Runs the Favorite Disc

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A vintage Osborne One portable computer is unpacked, opened, and loaded with a floppy disk. After the narrator says it can do more than display communist logos and play Global Thermonuclear War, the machine produces crude green ASCII graphics, making the outdated computer’s “capabilities” amusingly underwhelming. The clip works as a nostalgic retro-computing joke about primitive technology. EN: A vintage Osborne One portable computer is unpacked, opened, and loaded with a floppy disk. After the narrator says it can do more than display communist logos and play Global Thermonuclear War, the machine produces crude green ASCII graphics, making the outdated computer’s “capabilities” amusingly underwhelming. The clip works as a nostalgic retro-computing joke about primitive technology.

This is the Osborne One, the world's first portable computer and I want to show you guys what it can do besides show communist logos and play global thermonuclear war. Here's my favorite disc, let's go ahead and put this in. Close it up and you press enter.

• @eternalclassic / 21657 2022-10-20