Osborne 1
This rather bulky machine is the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable personal computer, classed as a "luggable".
Launched in 1981, it was about the same size and weight as a suitcase and cost more than £1,500 ($1,795 in the U.S.).
Its use was limited by a built-in 13cm display and single density floppy disk drive.
Despite this the 4MHz 64K machine was popular, shipping 10,000 units each month and spawning a range of imitators at its peak.
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- RE: BBC Micro (Gallery: The evolution of the PC)
- Greenwich University have a couple of show cases in one of their rooms with a similar colelction to this but inlcuded items like the zx80, and sinclair's QUERTY, among others. ON seeing this post, lik... (Read the rest)
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The BBC Micro has a picture of a Dragon 32 on it. [nt]
olePigeon | 05/11/09
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Where are the home PCs?
6502coder | 05/12/09
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RE: BBC Micro (Gallery: The evolution of the PC)
MacMicky | 05/12/09
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RE: BBC Micro (Gallery: The evolution of the PC)
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