{"id":874,"date":"2012-06-25T13:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2012-06-25T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:00:53","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-osborne-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/874\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-osborne-1","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Osborne 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/osborne_fact_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/osborne_fact_small.jpg\" alt=\"Osborne 1 Portable Computer ad -  1982\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Two out of three doctors recommend Osborne 1 for muscle fatigue.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve come a long way from what many consider to be the first commercial portable PC, the <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/04\/01\/osborne-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Osborne 1<\/a> (seen here), and the recently announced <a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2012\/06\/19\/my-first-23-questions-about-microsofts-surface-windows-8-tablet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Surface<\/a> tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brain twister for you.  If you packed a case the size of the Osborne 1 (think small suitcase) with Surface-sized portable tech, how powerful would the machine be?<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE Magazine, February 1982, p.31 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What was your first portable computer? When did you get it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two out of three doctors recommend Osborne 1 for muscle fatigue. We&#8217;ve come a long way from what many consider to be the first commercial portable PC, the Osborne 1 (seen here), and the recently announced Microsoft Surface tablet. Here&#8217;s a brain twister for you. If you packed a case the size of the Osborne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,8,10],"tags":[65,113,112,109,110,111,60],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-technology-commentary","category-computers","tag-65","tag-byte","tag-microsoft-surface","tag-osborne","tag-osborne-1","tag-portable-computers","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}