OSI-tems Vol IV
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:18 am
Here are issues 3 and 4 of Volume IV. I don't have issues 1 and 2, but based on the Treasurer's Report on numbered page 3 (PDF page 5) of #3, I believe they were for February and March, with no January issue once again. (And I might have been the Treasurer who gave that report.)
These issues were apparently printed on paper whose top edge was not perfectly straight. The diagonal line seen at the upper right of odd-numbered pages in issue 3, and of several pages in issue 4, is the top edge of the physical paper. (Issue 3 was printed double-sided, and issue 4 was printed single-sided.)
Issue 4 contains the first ever mentions (on numbered pages 1 and 2, PDF pages 3 and 4) of the then-being-planned OSUNY BBS. And yes, it names the person who will be running it. He has generally not wanted his identity to be publicly known, so please don't post it on more general-interest sites. I hope that, by this point in time, he will not mind that these newsletters mentioning him are being reprinted on this forum. And yes, he is the "Allen" who that handwritten page of mine accompanying the SEB-3 board and its driver disk was addressed to. As stated in issue 4, he originally planned to run the BBS on a C8P, and I had heard that he wanted the system to have an 80-column display, so I thought he might use that board in it. But by the time I brought it to a meeting to give to him, he had decided to go with a serial CP/M system instead. Initial testing was done on a C3-S1, which I helped carry into his house, but I think that by the time it went online, he had already switched to a non-OSI system. The SEB-3 was instead returned to a representative from Grafix, who gave it to someone on Staten Island, who eventually sent it to the other Allen, the one Billdrom got it from.
These issues were apparently printed on paper whose top edge was not perfectly straight. The diagonal line seen at the upper right of odd-numbered pages in issue 3, and of several pages in issue 4, is the top edge of the physical paper. (Issue 3 was printed double-sided, and issue 4 was printed single-sided.)
Issue 4 contains the first ever mentions (on numbered pages 1 and 2, PDF pages 3 and 4) of the then-being-planned OSUNY BBS. And yes, it names the person who will be running it. He has generally not wanted his identity to be publicly known, so please don't post it on more general-interest sites. I hope that, by this point in time, he will not mind that these newsletters mentioning him are being reprinted on this forum. And yes, he is the "Allen" who that handwritten page of mine accompanying the SEB-3 board and its driver disk was addressed to. As stated in issue 4, he originally planned to run the BBS on a C8P, and I had heard that he wanted the system to have an 80-column display, so I thought he might use that board in it. But by the time I brought it to a meeting to give to him, he had decided to go with a serial CP/M system instead. Initial testing was done on a C3-S1, which I helped carry into his house, but I think that by the time it went online, he had already switched to a non-OSI system. The SEB-3 was instead returned to a representative from Grafix, who gave it to someone on Staten Island, who eventually sent it to the other Allen, the one Billdrom got it from.