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When it comes to dinosaur computers in the "luggable" category, the first name that should always be mentioned is the Osborne 1. We can talk about innovation with the Air, but we should first consider a PC that was truly revolutionary back in 1981. The Osborne 1 was the first completely self-contained portable computer.
Coming along a few years later was the Radio Shack TRS80 Model 4P, which refined the concepts laid out by the Osborne 1 and made lugging a computer from here to there a common everyday reality for many.
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- Image 6 of the Radio Shack 4P the front cover is on backwards. I had one of these "Transportable" monsters and when you put the cover on it it didn't lean like a piece of modern art. I used to trans... (Read the rest)
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COLOR!!!
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SX-64 what a great box!
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