Adam Osborne is remembered as the inventor of the Osborne 1, the world's first portable computer. What people tend to forget is that Osborne himself never considered the Osborne 1 to be his most ...

Adam Osborne, 64, a technical writer, business executive and computer pioneer whose Silicon Valley achievements included the introduction of the Osborne 1, the first portable personal computer ...

Apple didn't invent the portable computer. Neither did Toshiba. Or IBM. The first portable computer was created in April 1981 by a company called Osborne, led by a journalist turned entrepreneur ...

The Osborne 1 We might chuckle at this today compared to our ultra-sleek laptops, but, for its time, the Osborne 1 was breakthrough technology. Adam Osborne started a revolution.

Osborne Computer Corp. became the fastest-growing Silicon Valley company shortly after the launch of the 24-pound, $1,795 Osborne 1. At its peak, it was selling at a rate of 10,000 a month.

In 1981, the company’s first year, Osborne sold $5.8-million worth of the Osborne-1 computer, which was the size of a portable sewing machine. By the end of 1982, he had sold $68.8 million ...

The Osborne 1 designed by Felsenstein exceeded Adam Osborne's specifications. For instance, although the display was only supposed to have a 40-character line, Felsenstein's design had 52 characters.

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 ...

Modern laptop designs are a far cry from their predecessors, but only because it’s been a long, iterative process with many major milestones along the way. The first laptop, the first thin-and ...