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Osborne 1

Colorado School of Mines. Information & Technology Solutions
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Osborne Computer Corporation
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2018
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Computers
 Microcomputers
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/172481
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The Osborne Computer Corporation was founded in 1980 with an emphasis placed on portable computers. The Osborne 1 debuted a year later and became the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, featuring a 5-inch (127 mm) 52-column display, two floppy-disk drives, a Z80 microprocessor, and 64KB of RAM. The Osborne 1 ran the then-popular CP/M 2.2 operating system. The computer was shipped with a large bundle of software that was almost equivalent in value to the machine itself, a practice adopted by other CP/M computer vendors. In 2011 dollars, $1,795 = $4,300.
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