A lightweight computer that can be easily transported. Portable computing started in 1981, when Adam Osborne introduced his CP/M-based business computer called the Osborne 1. It came bundled with ...

The second generation of the Osborne portable computer. Sporting a 7" display instead of the very small 4.5" on the original Osborne 1, only a small number of Executives were sold before the ...

Created by British-American software publisher and computer designer Adam Osborne, the Osborne 1 is recognized as the first commercially successful portable computer, shipping in April 1981 ...

The Osborne 1 was the first all-in-one portable computer. It set the stage for mobile computing, though at 23 pounds, it was arguably more luggable than portable. But the Osborne did include 5-1/4 ...

Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq, were conventional desktop computers with a small monitor ...