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Jumat, 11 April 2014

The Osborne, First Generation of Laptop

nowadays laptop with 2kgs weight is to heavy to be carried. imagine how about the first generation of laptop being sold : 20 kgs!

the osborne is the first laptop released and comercially sold in 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation with price $1795.


here is the specification of the osborne : 
- operating system : cp/m 2.2 os (control program/monitor) 
- memory : 64kb (64000 byte) 
- floppy disk 100kb 
- iee 488 port (8bit paralel port) 
- rs-232-c port (serial port) 

and software included : 
- cp/m 2.2 os 
- c-basic 
- microsoft basic 
- wordstar (word processor) 
- super calculator 


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posted by kcnx78 at 18.05