The first portable computer, developed by Adam Osborne and introduced in 1981. Floppy disk based with 64K of memory, the Osborne 1 used the CP/M operating system and a modified version of the ...

Dr. John Osborne has a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science where he teaches Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on biomedical text. Dr. Osborne came to UAB by way of ...

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 ...

A contract manufacturing company that was building the old Osborne computer (remember that one?) almost couldn't ship the product because of the difficulty of developing test vectors. The company had ...

Texas Instruments eventually departed the computer-making business but today is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world. In 1981 Osborne Computer Corp. released the first ...