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The 30th Anniversary of Osborne Computer
harrymcc writes "This Sunday is the thirtieth anniversary of the announcement of the Osborne 1 — the first mass-produced mobile computer. For years, Osborne has been most famous for its failure, traditionally blamed on the company having preannounced new products before they were available. But that's not the whole story — and Adam Osborne, its founder, was a fascinating figure who deserves to be remembered."
What's really scary is that I remember it!
No, that's just mildly depressing. Scary is when you have an old receipt for one but you don't remember it.
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Apropos of that, see http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Tell_Adam_Hes_An_Asshole.txt&showcomments=1#comments
Jobs was a bit of a dick but, he was mostly right...