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 ...

Adam Osborne, a British technical writer who became one of Silicon Valley's legends by introducing the first portable personal computer in 1981, died on March 18 in Kodiakanal, India. He was 64 and ...

The first portable computer was unveiled 30 years ago yesterday. It was introduced by Adam Osborne and was called the Osborne 1. This groundbreaking device quickly gained popularity before the company ...

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 ...

Portable computer pioneer Adam Osborne died Monday at age 64 after a long illness, Reuters reported. The British immigrant and Berkeley, Calif., resident was famed for his introduction of the 23-pound ...

The Osborne 1 landed in June 1981, two months before International Business Machines Corporation released its IBM Personal Computer and ignited the long-running feud between Apple and IBM. The company ...

On this day in economic and business history ... The world's first mass-produced "portable" computer (a computer in the true sense, and not just a big calculator) was introduced to the tech public on ...

According to Wikipedia, “The Osborne Executive was useful for presentations and projects at client sites. Unlike static presentations, the portable computer could provide on-the-spot answers to ...

Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures in pioneering the first portable computer became one of the Silicon Valley’s great cautionary tales, has died. He was 64. Osborne, a British immigrant and ...

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, died ...

San Jose, California: 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 at the age ...