BANGALORE, India — Adam Osborne, who launched the world's first portable computer in a suitcase well ahead of IBM and other PC makers, died March 18 in the south Indian hill station of Kodaikanal ...
Adam Osborne, who co-founded a company that pioneered portable computers but met the same fate of countless future Silicon Valley firms that grew too quickly, has died. He was 64. Osborne died in his ...
NEW YORK — Adam Osborne, an entrepreneur who helped popularize the portable computer and develop the fast-growth culture of Silicon Valley, has died at the age of 64 after a long illness, according to ...
The first portable computer, developed by Adam Osborne and introduced in 1981. Floppy disk based with 64K of memory, the Osborne 1 used the CP/M operating system and a modified version of the WordStar ...
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The World’s First Laptop Weighed 24 Pounds and Had a Five Inch Screen, But It Changed Computers Forever
In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and curious gawkers. However, against a backdrop of beige desktop boxes sat ...
NEW YORK - Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness. Osborne, a ...
April 3, 1981 marked the introduction of the Osborne 1, the first mainstream portable computer. Three-and-a-half decades later, computers are now much more portable – but how do modern-day laptops ...
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