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 ...

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 ...

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. He was 64. Osborne died in his ...

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 ...

Learning from the market's past to understand its present. On this day in economic and business history ... The world's first mass-produced "portable" computer (a computer in the true sense, and not ...

NEW YORK - Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness. Osborne, a ...

But given Osborne's notoriety and gift for invention, it didn't take long for me to find out who he was and what he had done. It took even less time to discover the incredible impact this man and his ...

My first computer was an Osborne 1, and it’s still one of my favorites, though it’s no longer made. My old (three years is “old” in the computer industry) Ozzie still serves me loyally every day, ...

Sad but true: We have no national holidays in this country that pay tribute to our great technological heritage. But if we did, April 3rd would be a good candidate. On that day in 1981, at a trade ...

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 ...

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 ...