Osborne
“Adam Osborne, Pioneer of the Portable PC, dies at 64” - NY Times.
I still remember the Osborne 1 — a huge, hulking thing (it weighed 24 pounds) with an even smaller screen than my Apple ][+. Have a look here. Those are 5-1/4” disk drives on either side of the screen. But I have to admit — the Radio Shack Model 100 was the first portable that ever caught my fancy. That was when Radio Shack actually sold it’s own brand of computers. A lot of reporters used the Model 100. It came with a 110 baud external modem that had a couple of rubber holsters that you actually set the phone handset into. It basically only did word processing, but it was cool.
Speaking of old portable computers, remember the Apple Mac Portable? Whew, it was only 17 pounds. It looked basically like a large Apple //c with the addition of a fold-up screen and a trackball to the right of the keyboard.
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