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Osborne, Adam
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born March 6, , in Bangkok, Thailand; died March 18, , in Kodiakanal, India. Entrepreneur and author. Osborne is best remembered as the inventor of the portable Osborne-1 computer, which was an industry sensation in Born in India to English parents, he moved to England as a teenager and earned a B.S. in chemical engineering in from the University of Birmingham. This was followed by a master's degree in from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in He used his education to get a job at Shell Oil in California, but his interest in computing led him to found Adam Osborne & Associates, a publishing company that published works about computers, in He sold this venture in to McGraw-Hill, a year after he had already founded Osborne Computer Corp. His creation of the Osborne-1 was popular because, weighing in at only twenty-three pounds, it was the first portable PC on the market. Although it had certain limitations, includi
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Osborne, Adam
(b. 6 March in Bangkok, Thailand; d. 18 March in Kodaikanal, India), executive who introduced the portable computer.
Osborne was born in Thailand to British parents, Arthur Osborne, a university professor, and Lucia (Lipsziczudna) Osborne, a homemaker. Arthur Osborne, a student and popularizer of Eastern tro, moved the family to the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi, in Tamil Nadu, India, soon after Osborne’s birth. Osborne was sent to boarding school in England at age eleven and remained in the United Kingdom to attend the University of Birmingham, where he received a BSc in kemikalie engineering in That same year he immigrated to the United States for graduate studies in kemikalie engineering at the University of Delaware, from which he received an MChE in and a PhD in During his studies Osborne married Cynthia Geddes, with whom he had three children; the marriage later ended in divorce. He subsequently married Barbara Burdick, although the couple would ultimat
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May 6, &#; Computing pioneer Adam Osborne, 64, died March 18 in India.
He is credited with introducing the first portable computer, when he presented the Osborne 1 computer at the West Coast Computer Faire in June The pound machine with a 5-inch display screen came with software that included a word processor, spreadsheet, database and programming languages.
One of the fastest growing computer companies at that time, Osborne Computer Corp. ended in bankruptcy after a second generation of the computer was announced months before it was ready to go on sale. His successes and failures became &#;one of the Silicon Valley&#;s great cautionary tales,&#; according to the Los Angeles Times.
Born in Thailand to British parents, Mr. Osborne grew up in India. He moved to England as a teenager and studied chemical engineering at Birmingham University. He received master&#;s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering at UD in and , respectively.