Osborne Executive Guide Volume 0 Beginners Guide 1983
Osborne Executive Guide, Volume 0: Beginner's Guide is the first of Osborne Computer Corporation's Osborne Executive Guides for the Osborne Executive, part number 3F00192-00, copyright 1983, Hayward, California. The scan has 114 PDF pages and a text layer.
The setup, CP/M, WordStar and SuperCalc lessons were written by Michael McCarthy and the Personal Pearl section by Sharon Rosa Wood and Sue Stanley; Joseph Caggiano was editorial advisor.
Contents
[edit | edit source]- Introduction, ix
- Lesson 1, setup and CP/M Plus, 2: what you need, using the guide, setting up the computer 3, copying your program disk 6, formatting data disks 10
- Lesson 2, WordStar, 15: special keys, the opening menu, changing to drive B, opening, saving and printing a file, editing, moving words, reformatting lines
- Lesson 3, SuperCalc, 31: loading a sample spreadsheet, entering numbers, building a spreadsheet, the ZAP command
- Personal Pearl section
Lesson 1 gives Osborne's procedure for setting up the machine, copying the program disk and formatting data disks.
What this guide does not contain
[edit | edit source]- No hardware information: no parts list, values, schematics, voltages, disassembly or fault-finding. The copyright page warns that tampering with the internal hardware may void the warranty.
- Nothing on the Osborne 1 or Osborne Vixen.
For the Executive's published specifications see Osborne Executive Reference Guide 1983; for its circuit, Osborne Executive OCC2 Schematic; for service, Osborne Field Service Manual (Revision 2.0).
The series
[edit | edit source]The Osborne Executive Guides are numbered from 0. The wiki holds volume 0 (3F00192-00), volume 2 (3F00194-00) and volume 4 (3F00196-00), the same three volumes that bitsavers holds. Volumes 1 and 3 are not hosted.
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