Date   : Mon, 11 Jun 1984 22:17:08-EDT
From   : jalbers@Bnl.ARPA
Subject: Osborne Computer Corporation Update

Greetings, all:

       I have just come home from the Capital Osborne Users Group (CapOUG)
here in Washington, D.C., and I thought I should share some news of OCC with 
you:

       Osborne is expected to come out of chapter 11 in the next month or so.
They have been selling overseas as well as in Canada since before chapter 11,
and plan to re open sales in the U.S. by introducing two new microcomputers.  

       The first release will be of a lap-sized micro using a regular CRT,
which is to be bundled with the usual OCC software package.  (CP/M, WordStar,
SuperCalc, MBASIC/CBASIC, etc.).  It is not known, at this time, what the
specifics of it are yet, but it is rumored that it will be upgradeable to be
IBM-PC compatable.

       The second release will be a desk-top/transportable micro, running
MS-DOS.  Though this doesn't sound too exciting, the real news comes when one 
is told of the response of an OCC engeneer when asked if it would have a 68000
processer in it (---AAAH, Maybe!!!).

       
       They will continue to produce the Executive I, and the Executive II, and
they are making some serious considerations for continuation of the production
of the Ozzie 1.


}i                                             Jon Albers
                                               jalbers@bnl