Osborne 1 luggable

Oct 2001: OK, started playing again. The keyboard is shorted in two or three places. I got a copy of the keyboard connector pinouts from Robert Feldman, thanks Robert!

19 N/C 17 col 7 15 col 5 13 col 3 11 col 1 9 row 7 7 row 5 5 row 6 3 row 0 1 ground 20 ground 18 N/C 16 col 6 14 col 4 12 col 2 10 col 0 8 row 1 6 row 2 4 row 3 2 row 4 Keyboard connector viewed from the front of the computer. I copied these tables from chapter 8 of the Osborne technical manual.

P1 A0 3 ESC TAB CTRL   SHIFT RET ENT " ' [ ] A1 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A5 7 Up Arrow Left Arrow 0 SPACE > % P O 9 A2 6 Q W E R T Y U I A3 4 A S D F G H J K A4 2 Z X C V B N M < , A6 5 Right Arrow Down Arrow _ - ? / : ; | \ L + = A7 9       Alpha Lock         GND 1/20 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 GND D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 Keyswitch Matrix

I need a boot disk (CP/M 2.2), anyone?

• Osborne ROM images:
  • Monitor Rev 1.3 c. 1982 OCC (4K)
  • Character generator? (2K)
• OAK CP/M archive
• CP/M 2.2 Manual, source code, forth, pascal, etc here.
• John Elliott's CP/M page
• The Computer Journal's page of CP/M gems
• Rune's Osborne 1 page.
• Josh's page has a boot disk image. Local mirror.

• GIDE -- Connecting IDE devices to 8 bit machines.

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