Date   : Thu, 07 May 1987 11:14:00 PDT
From   : Ghenis.pasa@Xerox.COM
Subject: Re: Osborne Screen

> Could someone please tell me if and/or how to change the osborne to
> display more than 40 columns when using an external monitor.

The "stock" Osborne displays up to 52 columns. There is a program called
SETUP provided with the Osborne on the Utility disk which will change
the number of columns you get before line-wrapping. A few public domain
programs perform the same function.

HOWEVER... for more than 52 columns your text will go off the edge on
BOTH the internal and external monitors. The only way around this is to
get a HARDWARE VIDEO UPGRADE, like the one from Nuevo Electronics. I
don't know what it costs now, but it's probably close to the market
value of the Osborne itself. I faced the same dilemma and chose to keep
my O-1 at 52 columns.

-- Pablo Ghenis, OKOK (Osborne Komputer Owners' Klub)