Laptops In History - The Osbourne 1
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When we see how sophisticated and sleek the laptops are these days, we tend to forget and keep on complaining about today’s laptop.
Personally I feel laptops have leap through giant footsteps to be it is today and when I look back I very grateful to own a laptop that is so easy and portable.
Today I’ll be talking about the Osbourne 1.
As you all know, the Osbourne 1 is the first successful portable computer ever made.
Not may may agree with me when you look at the picture below 
The Osbourne 1 was created in 1980 by Adam Osbourne who was also a computer book author and publisher. He has a big vision that one day computers are made to be portable …. and that vision has came true with today’s portable laptops.
The computer was price at US$1795 at that time, consisting of of a set of keyboard, two floppy disk drives and a credit card sized monitor.
At that time 10, 000 units were sold each month and it was a major success as I could see it .
However by 1983, the Osbourne was overtaken by IBM and this model died.
So now, what do think about your laptop today?
I think you will start to be grateful about it and cause you need not have to carry a 24 pounds of Osbourne 1 on your back. Just Imagine ……
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Joel said:
Wow this laptop is very old, every year laptops come smaller and more powerfull. I replace my traditional home computer with my laptop because I believe laptop offers more flexibility to everybody.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pm -
Char said:
I think this is really interesting. I wish I could find out more about the man behind the laptop and how he got to produce it.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm