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Lest We Forget: PC Pioneer Adam Osborne Recalled

I am surprised that PCWorld.com has no mention of the recent death of Adam Osborne, who introduced the first portable.

Osborne really understood the importance of making a computer that worked for the masses and could work anywhere. I loved my Osborne machine. I used it from June 1981 until December 1987, when a disk drive finally gave out. I still have it--in storage back in the States--because it is a real collector's piece and because it was a joy to own and work with.

The Osborne computer's ease of use and transportability brought a lot of people to computing. And remember, this was all at a time when people who used computers were talking of writing their own code and feeding strips of paper into home-made contraptions.

Dan Kubiske, Hong Kong

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