Osborne-1 microcomputer

UvA Computer Museum catalogue nr 93.36

osborne 1
The Osborne-1, manufactured by Osborne Computer Corporation, was the first transportable microcomputer. In 1980, it captured a practically non-existent market. Versatility, flexibility, and an impressive assortment of software for one extremely low price triggered the beginning of the portable computer era. Its package of one CRT, two diskette drives, keyboard, CPU (Z80A at 4 Mhz) and 64K RAM, CP/M, serial port, Word Star, MailMerge, SuperCalc, MBasic, CBasic, and on special occasions dBase-II came for $1795.
Besides the Osborne-1, the Computer Museum owns the Osborne Variant 1 ( cat.nr. 93.39) which is a desktop computer derived from the portable model.
The text in the top paragraph was adapted from the 1983 Datapro Feature Report "All About Portable Computers".
Our Osborne computers were donated by Henk Brouwers and Paul Frings.

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