In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Adam Osborne, an entrepreneur who helped popularize the portable computer and develop the fast-growth culture of Silicon Valley, has died at the age of 64 after a long illness, according to ...

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 ...

But one reason you can’t buy Osborne computers today is because the company shot itself in the head. Shortly after the Osborne 1 came out, the company began telling its dealers that newer, faster ...

Modern laptop designs are a far cry from their predecessors, but only because it’s been a long, iterative process with many major milestones along the way. The first laptop, the first thin-and-light ...

CRN was launched in 1982, back then it was known as Computer Retail News. As part of our 30th anniversary, we look back at some memorable computer ads from the early days of CRN, like this Texas ...