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In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and ...
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 ...
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 Compu… ...
Adam Osborne, the man behind the first portable computer, has died. He sold tens of thousands of the Osborne-1, which at 23 pounds barely qualified as portable, and then jinxed himself by making a ...