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 ...

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 ...

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 ...