The First Portable Computer

By: Ma.Cristina CervantesOct/12/06

Mr. Jason Mickelson

Agenda• Osborne computer • Founders• Rod Canion• Jim Harris• Bill Morton• Adam Osborne• Timeline• How it works• Structure of the computer• What it looks like

The Osborne computer

• Considered the first portable computer

• Appeared in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation.

The founders of Compaq

• February 1982• Discovered

Osborne Computer

• Rod Canion, • Jim Harris• Bill Murton

Rod Canion

Jim Harris

Bill Morton

Adam Osborne

• Born in Thailand on March 6, 1939

• Parents were British• Lived in India• Graduated from the

University of Birmingham in 1961

• In 1981, introduced first portable computer

Timeline

1971

March 1980

January 1981

April 1981

September 1981

August 1982

1982

March 1983

Microprocessor chip

Idea of a new

companyOsborne

Computer

Osborne Computer

CorporationFirst

million is made

Microsoft

11, 000 computers

Osborne Executiv

e and Executiv

e II

How It Works

• You insert a paper with #or letters and it reads it

• 2 battery packs incase of emergency of loosing light

• Has a fast memory • Signal in every place

Structure of the Computer

• Small screen so it doesnt break

• Space for 2 floppy disks

• Box form • Weight 23.5 pounds

cost $1,795

How does it look

Bibliography

• file:///Volumes/USB%20MEMORY/Compaq%20I%20Portable%20computer.htm

• http://www.cedmagic.com/history/osborne-1.html

• http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html

•The End