The forerunners of the desktop replacement were the portable computers of the early-to-mid 1980s, such as the Osborne I, Kaypro II, the Compaq Portable and the Commodore Executive 64 ( SX-64 ) computers.

According to proponents of the Osborne Effect, Adam Osborne damaged his company's current sales when he began showing the Osborne Executive to journalists in early 1983.

Sales of the Osborne 1 were hurt by the company's premature announcement of superior successor machines such as the Osborne Executive, a phenomenon later called the Osborne effect.

The Osborne Computer Company announced a successor to the Osborne 1 In 1982, the Executive model OCC-2 and in early 1983, the company announced the more advanced Osborne Vixen, a smaller machine with the keyboard permanently attached, which also acted as a stand.

The Osborne Vixen was a " luggable " portable computer announced by the Osborne Computer Corporation in November 1984, as a follow up to their Osborne 1 and Osborne Executive system.

In 1983, founder Adam Osborne pre-announced several next-generation computer models ( the " Executive " and " Vixen " models ), which had not yet been built, highlighting the fact that they would outperform the existing model.

: To give the jazzy $ 2495 Osborne Executive a running start, Adam began orchestrating publicity early in 1983.

Purportedly, the new Executive model from Osborne Computer was priced at US $ 2, 195 and came with a screen, while competitor Kaypro produced a computer with a screen for US $ 400 less.

On June 3, 1845, Abernethy was elected to serve as Provisional Governor of the Oregon Country, defeating Osborne Russell, a member of the outgoing Executive Committee.

* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

The company was founded by Non-Linear Systems to develop computers to compete with the then-popular Osborne 1 portable microcomputer.

The Kaypro II was designed to be portable like the Osborne.

The Osborne Computer Corporation was a pioneering maker of portable computers.

After Adam Osborne sold his computer book-publishing company to McGraw-Hill in 1979, he decided to sell an inexpensive portable computer with bundled software and hired Lee Felsenstein to design it.

Osborne emerged from bankruptcy in the mid 1980s and finally released the Osborne Vixen, a compact portable running CP / M, in 1984.

** The Osborne 1 portable computer

He was best known for creating the first commercially available portable computer, the Osborne 1, released in April 1981.

The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation.

The brainchild of Ron Lingeman, a gifted H-P alumnus, the Attache was significantly smaller, sleeker, lighter and faster than the Osborne 1 and other portable computers of the time.

Xerox NoteTaker, developed in 1976 at Xerox PARC, was a precursor to later portable computers from Osborne Computer Corporation and Compaq, though it remained a prototype and did not enter production.

The first mass-produced microprocessor-based portable computer was the Osborne 1, developed by Osborne, which owed much to the NoteTaker's design.

A portable Smaky was made during this period, which resembled Osborne portable computers.

He was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club and the designer of the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer.

Felsenstein was the designer of the Osborne 1, the first mass produced portable computer.

* 1939 – Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer ( d. 2003 )

Already popular, its inclusion with the Osborne 1 computer made the program become the de facto standard for much of the word processing market.

In 1981, Non-Linear Systems began designing a personal computer, called KayComp, that would compete with the popular Osborne 1 transportable microcomputer.

The Kaypro II's market success was due to a number of factors: it had a larger screen than the Osborne ; it was a relatively inexpensive, simple to set up closed architecture system at a time when first-time computer buyers made up almost the entirety of the market ; it came bundled with popular third-party application software ( PerfectWriter and PerfectCalc, later to be replaced by MicroPro's WordStar and CalcStar ); and it was supported by a network of trained dealers.

The software alone was worth $ 1, 500, but the Osborne 1 sold for $ 1, 795 ; as InfoWorld stated in an April 1981 front-page article on the new computer after listing the bundled software, " In case you think the price printed above was a mistake, we'll repeat it: $ 1795.

" Osborne claimed that the new computer had a " significant price / performance advantage ", but emphasized the price, stating that its performance was " merely adequate ": " It is not the fastest microcomputer, it doesn't have huge amounts of disk storage space, and it is not especially expandable.

* Osborne Computer Corporation, computer company created by Adam Osborne

* Osborne ( computer retailer ), an Australian computer retailer

* Osborne Computer Corporation-an American computer company

Adam Osborne ( March 6, 1939 – March 18, 2003 ) was an Indian-born British-American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere.

* The Register-Portable computer pioneer Adam Osborne dies

Adam Osborne, an author of computer books, decided he wanted to break the price of computers.

The Osborne 1 was about the size and weight of a sewing machine and was advertised as the only computer that would fit underneath an airline seat.

Osborne Computer Corporation was unable to effectively respond to the Kaypro challenge until after the market window had closed and the day of the 8-bit, CP / M-based computer had ended.

In 1979, Adam Osborne viewed the machine along with several hundred other visitors at the first computer show that was sponsored by the IEEE Westec in Los Angeles.

In his Memoires ( 1658 ), Francis Osborne writes of " the last great Earle of Oxford, whose Lady was brought to his bed under the notion of his Mistris, and from such a virtuous deceit she ( Oxford's youngest daughter ) is said to proceed " ( p. 79 ).

Osborne Earl " Ozzie " Smith ( born December 26, 1954 ) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.

According to Harold Osborne, in France, the " characteristic development of the French arabesque combined bandwork deriving from the moresque with decorative acanthus foliage radiating from C-scrolls connected by short bars ".

At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne ( to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age ) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious / boastful but rich civil servant fresh from the East India Company.

Hoping to marry Sedley Becky entices him, but she fails because of warnings from Captain Osborne, Sedley's own native shyness, and his embarrassment over some foolish drunken behaviour of his that Becky had seen.

Dennis Patterson ( played by Tim Healy ) comes from Birtley Co. Durham ; Leonard " Oz " Osborne ( played by Jimmy Nail ) comes from Gateshead ; and Neville Hope ( played by Kevin Whately ) comes from North Shields.

Osborne House from the lower garden

The cottage was dismantled and brought piece by piece from Switzerland to Osborne where it was reassembled.

The private beach at Osborne House, where Queen Victoria, her husband and children swam from bathing machines.

The case of George Archer-Shee from 1908, who was expelled from Osborne after being falsely accused of stealing a 5-shilling postal order, inspired the play The Winslow Boy.

Doctor Einmug is a scientist who was created by Ted Osborne ( plot ) and Floyd Gottfredson ( plot and art ) in the story Island in the Sky, published in the Mickey Mouse daily strip from November 1936 to April 1937.

He was created by Ted Osborne ( plot ) and Floyd Gottfredson ( plot and art ) in the story Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine, published in the Mickey Mouse daily strip from September 1935 to January 1936.

K-18, a major east-west state highway in northern Kansas, enters from Osborne County to the west and runs through Paradise before joining up with US 281 through Waldo.

The city of Osborne is considered governmentally independent and is excluded from the census figures for the townships.

The borough sits across the river from Haysville and Osborne.

The Festival was increased and relocated from Osborne Park with the completion of a Pavilion located behind the Covered Bridge Library and Covered Bridge Museum in 2005.

Settlers from southeastern Pennsylvania founded Osborne City in May 1871.

The Osborne County Historical Museum exhibits artifacts from local history, including antique farm equipment, period clothing and housewares, and American Indian artifacts, and maintains on site a one-room school house built in 1912.

Once again, her aptitude for theatre serves her well, and, as the rapidly aging Hurstwood declines into obscurity, Carrie begins to rise from chorus girl to small speaking roles, and establishes a friendship with another chorus girl, Lola Osborne, who begins to urge Carrie to move in with her.