The hardware is the Osborne 1, widely acknowledged as the first laptop computer. It boasts a five inch screen, dual 5.25 inch floppy drives,
all crammed into a case that weighed a back-breaking 24lbs - all for just over £1300.
It was introduced in 1981 at the West Coast Computer Fair. It had 64 Kb of memory, a 5inch display screen and had two floppy disk drives
and a full sized keyboard. It came with a suite of software using a now obsolete operating system called CP/M operating system.
It sold for $1,795 which included Micropro's Wordstar software. The machine proved extremely popular, and in 1982, more than
125,000 Osborne computers were sold.
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all crammed into a case that weighed a back-breaking 24lbs - all for just over £1300.
It was introduced in 1981 at the West Coast Computer Fair. It had 64 Kb of memory, a 5inch display screen and had two floppy disk drives
and a full sized keyboard. It came with a suite of software using a now obsolete operating system called CP/M operating system.
It sold for $1,795 which included Micropro's Wordstar software. The machine proved extremely popular, and in 1982, more than
125,000 Osborne computers were sold.
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