Comments on: First lap-top, 1981 http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/osborne-1-the-first-lap-top/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Thu, 10 Nov 2024 15:29:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jinx http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/osborne-1-the-first-lap-top/#comment-63667 Jinx Sat, 17 Sep 2024 03:58:14 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=14528#comment-63667 And that hulking 5 inch display! Certainly in the LOVELY ubiquitous green type on black screen. Amazing. Would a Trash 80 have been just as portable, once you shipped or stored the droves? And that hulking 5 inch display! Certainly in the LOVELY ubiquitous green type on black screen.

Amazing. Would a Trash 80 have been just as portable, once you shipped or stored the droves?

]]> By: MaggieL http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/osborne-1-the-first-lap-top/#comment-62485 MaggieL Mon, 12 Sep 2024 17:29:24 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=14528#comment-62485 redjujube: It has a Z-80 and 64k of memory. Yes, two drives was a feature in those days, so you could copy files without disk swapping. redjujube: It has a Z-80 and 64k of memory.

Yes, two drives was a feature in those days, so you could copy files without disk swapping.

]]> By: Infrasoft http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/osborne-1-the-first-lap-top/#comment-60251 Infrasoft Wed, 31 Aug 2024 08:15:53 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=14528#comment-60251 This is funny! Perhaps in the next 10 years we will be laughting in the same way when we'll see technology we use nowadays. This is funny! Perhaps in the next 10 years we will be laughting in the same way when we’ll see technology we use nowadays.

]]> By: redjujube http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/osborne-1-the-first-lap-top/#comment-57934 redjujube Mon, 15 Aug 2024 05:37:05 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=14528#comment-57934 Another thing the 2 floppy drives was useful for was quickly duplicating a data disk to share data with someone else. Remember this was before the Internet, you couldn't just email someone a file, you had to put it on a disk and physically give it to him. An alternative means of transferring data was to link 2 computers together with a cable between their serial or parallel ports. You then sent data across that link using x-modem, z-modem, y-modem or other protocols. IIRC the name of one very popular program for transferring data that way was named "gz"(?) and it was written by Chuck Foresburg? Wasn't that long ago. We've come a long way. What was inside the Osborne 1? 8088? Z-80? 6809? Another thing the 2 floppy drives was useful for was quickly duplicating a data disk to share data with someone else. Remember this was before the Internet, you couldn’t just email someone a file, you had to put it on a disk and physically give it to him. An alternative means of transferring data was to link 2 computers together with a cable between their serial or parallel ports. You then sent data across that link using x-modem, z-modem, y-modem or other protocols. IIRC the name of one very popular program for transferring data that way was named “gz”(?) and it was written by Chuck Foresburg? Wasn’t that long ago. We’ve come a long way.

What was inside the Osborne 1? 8088? Z-80? 6809?

]]> By: Neal J. King http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/osborne-1-the-first-lap-top/#comment-44865 Neal J. King Sun, 08 May 2024 14:38:50 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=14528#comment-44865 Robin Nixon: Yes, Osborne "discovered" the First PC-Marketing Blunder: announce the features of Version 2 while trying to sell Version 1. John Sculley "discovered" the Second PC-Marketing Blunder: when you have a better hardware product, charge more for the hardware instead of taking the advantage in market share; thus dooming your platform to the margins in the software market. Whereas Bill Gates discovered the First PC-Marketing Insight: Customers will accept frustrating and unreliable interfaces if they can keep functionality they have learned to depend on. Robin Nixon:

Yes, Osborne “discovered” the First PC-Marketing Blunder: announce the features of Version 2 while trying to sell Version 1.

John Sculley “discovered” the Second PC-Marketing Blunder: when you have a better hardware product, charge more for the hardware instead of taking the advantage in market share; thus dooming your platform to the margins in the software market.

Whereas Bill Gates discovered the First PC-Marketing Insight: Customers will accept frustrating and unreliable interfaces if they can keep functionality they have learned to depend on.

]]> By: Gus http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/osborne-1-the-first-lap-top/#comment-44800 Gus Sat, 07 May 2024 09:37:57 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=14528#comment-44800 The guy on the right is not too clever as he doesn't have any lunch packed ..... The guy on the right is not too clever as he doesn’t have any lunch packed …..

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