1983 – Osborne Computer
Declares Bankruptcy
Osborne Computer declares bankruptcy, two years after
producing the first portable computer, the 24-pound Osborne I. Designed by
company founder Adam Osborne, the $1,795 machine included software worth about
$1,795 machine included software worth about $1,500. The machine featured a
5-inch display, 64 kilobytes of memory, a modem, and two 5 ¼ -inch floppy disk
drives.
In April 1981, Byte Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Morgan
mentioned the Osborne I in an article on “Future Trends in Personal Computing.”
He wrote: “I recently had an opportunity to see the Osborne I in action. I was
impressed with it’s compactness: it will fit under an airplane seat. (Adam
Osborne is currently seeking approval from the FAA to operate the unit on board
a plane.) One quibble: the screen may be too small for some people’s taste.”
1985 – Nintendo released Super Mario Brothers in
Japan. It became the bestselling video game for 20 years until it was surpassed
by Wii Sports.
2000 – The public beta of Apple’s Mac OS X, code
named Kodiak, was released. Users had to pay $29.95 for the beta.
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