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SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:4c43cda3$0$22161
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> http://www.soaresantiques.com/images/electronics/9018.jpg

Speaking of CB, we were in the CB business in Sumter, SC, called Seely 
Communications.  As the CB business waned, and the new microcomputers were 
just becoming more than a toy, we moved the business in that direction, 
becoming Ohio Scientific computer dealers.  Look on page 8 of the 1980 
brochure here:
http://technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/images/OSI-1980.pdf
and you'll see the last entry in the South Carolina dealers on the right 
page is Seely Communications, your friendly local Ohio Scientific computer 
dealer with its massive 74MB, 14" platter FIXED DISK in the Challenger 3P 
with triple processors Z80, 6502, 6800 (not 68000).  Programming was in an 
extended BASIC interpreter under OS-65/U running on the 6502 processor's 
huge 8-bit real estate in the BIG box!  We also sold ADDS Regent 25 RS-232 
terminals for it.  The business system didn't have direct video.  The C2P 
home computers did...PEEK and POKE directly to video making it faster...

We wrote a few business systems to sell in addition to the OSI standard 
line of software the company provided.  Seely survived until some johnny-
come-lately's called Micro$oft robbed everyone with the fancy IBM PC....

It was great fun being in the computer business at the beginning of 
micros....almost like not working at all!

The day we got the first C3P home, we didn't even know how to boot it 
up!....hee hee....boys with toys.  SWTP was my first box....years before.

Well, we better get back to arguing about stupid sellphones before they 
start pissing on us......iPhone SUCKS!


-- 
iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships.

Larry