Adam Osborne, 64, a technical writer, business executive and computer pioneer whose Silicon Valley achievements included the introduction of the Osborne 1, the first portable personal computer, died ...

Osborne, a British immigrant and longtime resident of Berkeley, Calif., died in his sleep March 18 in Kodiakanal, a village in southern India, his sister, Katya Douglas, said Monday. His death ended a ...

BANGALORE, India — Adam Osborne, who launched the world's first portable computer in a suitcase well ahead of IBM and other PC makers, died March 18 in the south Indian hill station of Kodaikanal ...

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NEW YORK - Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness. Osborne, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Osborne 1 portable computer weighed 24 pounds and set the template for "luggables." | Image Credit: Bilby/Wikimedia Commons CC ...

Adam Osborne, who co-founded a company that pioneered portable computers but met the same fate of countless future Silicon Valley firms that grew too quickly, has died. He was 64. Osborne died in his ...

Adam Osborne, the man behind the first portable computer, has died. He sold tens of thousands of the Osborne-1, which at 23 pounds barely qualified as portable, and then jinxed himself by making a ...

Portable computer pioneer Adam Osborne died Monday at age 64 after a long illness, Reuters reported. The British immigrant and Berkeley, Calif., resident was famed for his introduction of the 23-pound ...