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  • Portable computer pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64

    03/24/2003 10:54:54 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 11 replies · 453+ views
    Associated Press | March 25, 2003 | MATTHEW FORDAHL
    SAN JOSE, California, Mar 25, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Adam Osborne, who co-founded a company that pioneered portable computers but met the same fate of countless future Silicon Valley firms that grew too quickly, has died. He was 64. Osborne died in his sleep in Kodiakanal, India, on March 18, after a series of strokes caused by a brain disorder, his first wife, Cynthia Geddes, said Monday. He was buried Tuesday in India. Geddes said Osborne constantly thought up new ideas, including the concept of a portable computer that launched in 1981 - the same year International...