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 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 ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Adam Osborne (1939–2003) prospered during the frontier years of personal computing. In 1981, he created the first commercially available portable ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This was one of the earliest ...

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 ...