The Osborne 1 was essentially a new concept in computers, and was designed by the Guru of the personal computer world and ex-patriot Briton, Adam Osborne.
The Osborne 1 is based around the Z80 processor and comes as an integral disk and screen unit with attached keyboard. The whole unit weighs around 20 pounds and has a carrying handle to make it portable.
The screen is a small 5" monochrome display and gives a window of 24 x 50 characters or a longer display up to 128 characters. The user RAM supplied as standard is 64k and there is another 2 x 100k available on the 51/4" disk drives. Two interfaces are provided; one RS232 and one IEEE 488. A modem with acoustic coupler plug in to a special jack socket. The keyboard is a standard typewriter style unit with numeric keypad, it is attached to the main unit by a 9" cable. The system come supplied with CP/M operating system and BASIC, Word Star and a version of Visicalc. The machine was priced around £1195 + VAT (Value Added Tax)