Osborne Portable
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Yah, worked on some of those and the various copies that arose.
I even wrote a full accounting system that ran on Kaypro (640K Ram dual floppies, no HD woohooo).My favorite was the Zenith models that came out, their promo literature had a cartoon of two Burly guys in camo gear with a unit on their shoulders.
They had to call it a "Transportable" at 25+ lbs ::)
Moore's Law was still young back then, it took a whole year or more for the next generation of computing technology to arrive…...
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gots 2 of em … neither are in working condition afaik ;)
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I'm sure they're in perfect working condition.
They make wonderful door stops ;) -
doorstops ought to be easily moved in/out of positions. these first gen 'laptops' need a forklift to move :-)
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@Phishfry:
Anybody remember this green screen beauty…My Dad was proud of this machine when he got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
I had one. I gave it to my ex-wife in the divorce. (Yes, I'm that old.)
The screen wasn't green. Kaypro had a green screen. The Osborne 1 was white (more grey, really) on black.
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@Phishfry:
Anybody remember this green screen beauty…My Dad was proud of this machine when he got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
I would not, actually remember but…
The years prelude me by 10 - the earliest I recall is DOS 5, circa 1990, Intel 286 nevertheless...Wiki is fucked you know, it keeps begging for money, for MONEY period or for MORE MONEY period --
It is going to go down in history like this:
123 - show excel sheets wikipediaMaybe I am NOT the right guy for this.
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Sure do remember it.. My dad had bought one right when it came out with a daisywheel printer and paid me to type up a 30 page document in WordStar.
The keyboard was OK.. The screen sucked compared to my Commodore computer I had in my room. -
My childhood bedroom got invaded by a Commodore PET. I wrote a basic chess program on it line by line from a book. Luckily it had a mass storage device(cassette tape) As I remember the program did not compile on the first go around.
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I was trying to find the article i copied from and ran across this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Furry_Freak_BrothersStraight out of Austin Texas
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Back in the day, Austin was a wonderful place.
Now we have Yuppies and Republicans in SUVs.
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Why do I remember the screen being orange…? :o
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@Phishfry:
I was trying to find the article i copied from and ran across this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Furry_Freak_BrothersStraight out of Austin Texas
I loved Freak Brothers comics in my teen years. Unfortunately, the state of Kentucky classified them as "paraphernalia", and my local record store had to stop carrying them. I still have every one of them 40 years later!
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Fired one of them up. A couple of filter caps exploded & shits started smoking (expected)
After a trip to the nearest electronics shop & some soldering, it works again :D :D
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Reminds me of the first clone PC portables ("luggables' is more like it) that I used to sell back in the late 80's. Weighed around 20-30 lbs, stood as tall as your knees, but you could carry it around. Likely a ripoff of the IBM 5155 or Compaq Portable.
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There was also a Commodore 64 built with a similar design:
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Looks more like the Oscilloscope 64, with optional keyboard ;D
