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INVENTIONS

Adam Osborne invented and produced the first commercially successful portable personal computer with his company: Osborne Computer Corporation (OCC) in 1980, the fist portable computer (the osborne 1) was about the size of a suitcase and included 64K of memory, a monochrome monitor, a keyboard, and a disk drive.

This was not too expensensive for such a big and famous invention, you could own an osborne 1 for $1795 One year after osborne computer corporation (OCC) had made its first million dollars in computer sales even with the other companies trying to make competition it became one of the most top selling computers and started making 10.000 units per month now!!! in the second year they made 70 million dollars!!!

INVENTOR

Adam Osborne was born of british parents in Thailand March 6, 1939 but spent most of his life living in India, he attended school and graduated in the birmingham university in 1961 and later received his Ph.D. from the university of Delaware. he was Married and divorced twice, first to Cynthia Geddes and later to Barbara Zelnick, Adam Osborne had two sisters and three children: Alexandra who lives in Sacramento, Marc who lives in Miami, and Paul who lives in Berkeley. His son Paul Osborne is an education specialist and author of the LD SAT Study Guide, a notable SAT manual for students with learning disabilities

Later in his life In 1992, Osborne moved to India in declining health, suffering from a brain disorder that triggered frequent minor strokes. He unfortunately died on March 18, 2003.

**By : Juan Diego Arboleda**