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Portable Pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64

Posted by chrisd on from the heavy-news dept.

douglips writes "Yahoo News has the story. He's best remembered for the blunder of announcing that his next version of the Osborne portable computer was so much better, that nobody bought the current version and the company died quickly. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon."

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  1. American Icon? by Metallic+Matty · · Score: 0, Troll

    If he's an American Icon, and I'm an American, and I have no idea who the !@#$ he is, something seems wrong with that description..

  2. American Icon by Doomrat · · Score: 0, Troll

    >Truly an American icon

    Apart from the fact that he moved to America from England AFTER he'd finished University, so he must have been at least 20 years old at the time. He's English by anybody's standards - if you're going to be patriotic, at least use subjects from your own country.

    American patriotism is better summed up by the "patriot" missiles which are constantly shot at allies accidentally.