Photos: Dinosaur sightings: Osborne 1 and TRS-80 4P

While News.com published an excerpted "Cracking Open" for the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 2, this is the first look at the TRS80 Model 4P. The P stands for portable, of course.

In many ways, the Model 4P is a revision and update of the Osborne 1. When this luggable computer hit the market in 1983, the Osborne computer company was trying to cope with stiff competition that ultimately resulted in bankruptcy. Radio Shack, Compaq, and a few other companies were making bids to corner the fledgling portable PC market and the Osborne had trouble keeping up.