Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 01:23:58 05/25/04
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On May 25, 2004 at 01:43:36, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 24, 2004 at 20:57:40, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On May 24, 2004 at 20:47:14, Eelco de Groot wrote: >> >>>This one was slightly more expensive, portablewise. Good for chesstraining I >>>think, certainly for building up stamina and strong backmuscles, and it can run >>>Sargon 1! >>> >>>http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html >>> >>>Eelco >> >>I actually had a simliar style one back in 1984 -- it was a Compaq - and you >>actually had a color option with the 5" screen - you could pick green or amber >>for your text color. It was a "lugable" (as we called them back then) that >>weighed in 45 lbs. > > > >I seem to remember that Osborne was bought by Compaq. They went out of business. From http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html "In 1982, the Osborne Computer Company announced a successor, the Executive, with a larger screen and a cooling fan. Shortly thereafter, they announced the next system, the Vixen, an MS-DOS compatible portable. Unfortunately, potential customers stopped buying the Osborne 1, waiting for the Executive and the Vixen, which wasn't even ready to ship yet. Sales plummetted and Osborne quickly ran out of money and filed for bankruptcy in September of 1983. It probably wasn't the company's fault, since by this time most of the serious computer users were gravitating towards the new IBM PC, which had already been available for a number of years. Anything that wasn't IBM compatible was bound to fail. In 1983, the Compaq Portable came out - a portable computer similar to the Osborne, except that it was IBM compatible and ran MS-DOS. It was a great success." > > > > Christophe
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