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Osborne and Computer
* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
Kaypro's success contributed to the eventual failure of the Osborne Computer Corporation and Morrow Designs.
The Osborne Computer Corporation was a pioneering maker of portable computers.
Osborne obtained the software in part by offering stock in the new Osborne Computer Corporation, which he founded in January 1981.
Kaypro Computer offered portables that, like the Osborne 1, ran CP / M and included a software bundle, but Kaypro offered larger 9 inch ( 229 mm ) screens.
Hypergrowth: the rise and fall of Osborne Computer Corporation.
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* Osborne Computer Corporation, computer company created by Adam Osborne
* Osborne Computer Corporation-an American computer company
Osborne was known to frequent the famous Homebrew Computer Club's meetings around 1975.
At its peak, Osborne Computer Corporation shipped 10, 000 units of " Osborne 1 " per month.
These statements destroyed consumer demand for the Osborne 1, and the resulting inventory glut forced Osborne Computer to file for bankruptcy on September 13, 1983.
* The Computer Chronicles ( broadcast in 1984 )-Adam Osborne is interviewed by Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall
The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation.
In September 1981, Osborne Computer Company had its first US $ 1 million sales month.
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.

Osborne and Company
The National Stadium, which was also known as the Welsh National Rugby Ground, was designed by Osborne V Webb & Partners and built by G A Williamson & Associates of Porthcawl and Andrew Scott & Company of Port Talbot.
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.
Osborne and his friend Malcolm MacFarlane successfully launched Weet-Bix in Australia and New Zealand under the sponsorship of the owner of Grain Products Ltd., who soon sold the Australasian rights to the Australasian Conference Association Limited Sanitarium Health Food Company.
Osborne and MacFarlane decided to expand into South Africa and while there, they began the establishment of the British & African Cereal Company, Ltd., a Private Company, in order to start a venture in England under the Companies, Act, 1929, ( Company No. 267687 ), where they became joint Managing Directors until MacFarlane left the Company in 1932 / 1933, after which Osborne became the sole Managing Director until 1936, when he left the Company for the United States of America.
The first Directors of the Company were Bennison Osborne, Malcolm MacFarlane, Alfred Richard Upton and Arthur Stanley Scrutton.
Osborne set out to make a product more palatable than " Granose ," a biscuit that was marketed by the Sanitarium Health Food Company at that time.
A syndicate was formed, Osborne refined the product and he and Macfarlane went to England to form the British & African Cereal Company, Ltd., which they registered in London in 1932, as a Private Company, with the proprietor shown as Weetabix Limited of Weetabix Mills, Burton Latimer, Kettering.
All shares in the Company were specified to be under the control of the Directors, the first of whom were Bennison Osborne, Malcolm Ian Macfarlane, Alfred Richard Upton and Arthur Stanley Scrutton.
In 1933, Macfarlane left the Company to pursue other business interests, leaving Osborne as the sole managing director.
Osborne sold his shareholding to the directors in July, 1936, at which time the Company was renamed “ Weetabix Limited .” Osborne proceeded at that time to the United States, establishing a weetabix factory in Clinton, Massachusetts.

Osborne and announced
In his March 2012 budget, chancellor George Osborne announced plans to close the loophole that allows Subway competitors to offer hot food without paying VAT.
In the 2011 Autumn Statement on 29 November, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the Government had agreed to reduce the debt on the bridge by £ 150 million, which would allow the toll for cars to be halved to £ 1. 50.
Despite its unattractive design and heavy weight — it resembled " a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3 ", and Felstenstein confessed that carrying two units four blocks to a trade show " nearly pulled my arms out of their sockets "— in the first eight months after April 1981, when the Osborne 1 was announced, the company sold 11, 000 units.
On 16 June 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced plans to abolish the FSA and separate its responsibilities between two new agencies, one to be part of the Bank of England.
On 16 June 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced plans to abolish the FSA and separate its responsibilities between a number of new agencies and the Bank of England.
In the spending review statement to the House of Commons on 20 October 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that from 2013 the Civil List would be abolished.
Colchester Borough Council have announced plans to build a new, smaller bus station in Osborne Street which will include basic facilities such as real-time displays and seating areas.
In the March 2011 Budget, Chancellor George Osborne announced that the Government would consult on merging the operation of Income Tax and National Insurance.
In early 2008 the record label Holy Mountain announced a new solo project by Osborne called Zomes.
Devaney announced he would step down as head coach at age 57 after the 1972 season to concentrate on his duties as athletic director, and named Osborne as his successor.
Osborne announced his retirement as head coach late in the 1997 season, selecting Frank Solich, his longtime running backs coach, to succeed him.
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.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced the details of the spending review on 20 October 2010.
In the spending review which he presented to the House of Commons on 20 October 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that part of the responsibility for funding S4C was to be transferred to the BBC.
Street in the Strand ; his former shop at Gray's Inn Gate was announced for sale in the Tatler for 14 October ( No. 237 ); and it seems to have been taken by Thomas Osborne, stationer, the father of the afterwards well-known publisher, Thomas Osborne ( died 1767 ).

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