My still working Osborne Executive.
Introduced in 1982, the Executive was Adam Osborne’s follow-up to the Osborne 1, the first true portable computer. It had a larger 7″ amber screen.
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In 1981, when the Osbourne 1 was first introduced and mind you this was a couple months before IBM’s IBM PC was introduced, roughly 1,800 people dragged this 25 pound laptop home. The laptop itself was equiped with a 4mhz z80 cpu, 64 kb ram, and a monochrome 5 inch screen. Would you survive on 4 mhz today? would adobe photoshop run on 64 kb ram?
This executive however proved to be one fork in the road for Osbourne. When the executive was released in 1982 Osbourne had a stockpile of Osbourne 1’s left and instead of buying the executive consumers were buying the original. Also compaq had come out with there next generation machine(forgot name) and in the end Osbourne ran out of money and business resulting in bankrupty a couple of years later.
I believe he died at 64 due to a past of continous strokes.
Osbourne was a pioneer and this beauty is a great digitial artifact i would keep and pass down generation after generation.