BANGALORE, India — Adam Osborne, who launched the world's first portable computer in a suitcase well ahead of IBM and other PC makers, died March 18 in the south Indian hill station of Kodaikanal ...

Portable computer pioneer Adam Osborne died Monday at age 64 after a long illness, Reuters reported. The British immigrant and Berkeley, Calif., resident was famed for his introduction of the 23-pound ...

In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and curious gawkers. However, against a backdrop of beige desktop boxes sat ...

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But given Osborne's notoriety and gift for invention, it didn't take long for me to find out who he was and what he had done. It took even less time to discover the incredible impact this man and his ...

Sad but true: We have no national holidays in this country that pay tribute to our great technological heritage. But if we did, April 3rd would be a good candidate. On that day in 1981, at a trade ...

It's fitting that we pay tribute to Adam Osborne, a visionary who in 1981 set the PC world on fire with a 21 pound "portable" computer. His company took off like wild fire, only to crash in ...