Osborne 1 - The First Portable Computer 






Osborne 1 - The First Portable Computer

The Osborne 1 was the first widely accepted portable computer that included a monitor, disk drives and all components.


It was introduced in 1981 at the West Coast Computer Faire. It had 64 Kb of memory, a 5 inch display screen and had two floppy disk drives and a full sized keyboard.

The Osborne weighed 24 pounds and relied on the CP/M operating system. It sold for $1,795 which included  Micropro's Wordstar software.

The Osborne 1, was very popular. In 1982, over 125,000 Osborne computers were sold.

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