Created by British-American software publisher and computer designer Adam Osborne, the Osborne 1 is recognized as the first commercially successful portable computer, shipping in April 1981, at ...

Early portable computers of the 1980s perfectly utilized LCDs, which were extremely energy-efficient, lightweight, and thin displays. Early LCDs were monochrome and low contrast, ...

The challenge facing technology firms in the 1970s and ’80s, wasn’t whether they could make computers small enough for our homes – it was convincing people to want one there in the first place.

Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died. He was 69. The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National ...

The Geauga County Public Libraries had a problem. “The portable computers that we would load games on were really popular with children, but they were beginning to show their age and we needed ...

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The challenge facing technology firms in the 1970s and ’80s, wasn’t whether they could make computers small enough for our homes – it was convincing people to want one there in the first place.