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 ...
The second generation of the Osborne portable computer. Sporting a 7" display instead of the very small 4.5" on the original Osborne 1, only a small number of Executives were sold before the company ...
In 1987, your portable Osborne computer had a problem. Who you gonna call? Well, maybe the company that made “The Osborne Survival Kit,” a video from Witt Services acquired by the Computer History ...
Makers of portable computers have spent the past 20-odd years striving to build systems that answer users' cries for "smaller, faster, cheaper." To a large extent, they have succeeded. One notable ...
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