Osborne Executive
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The Osborne Executive was the planned successor of the already commercially successful Osborne 1, released in April, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation. The Executive was a collection of the good features from the Osborne 1 and fixes of it's predessors flaws.
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[edit] Software and hardware details
The Osborne Executive, like the Osborne 1, came with application software. The WordStar word processor, SuperCalc spreadsheet, and the CBASIC and MBASIC programming languages—all software packages that were the leading applications in their respective niches at the time—had a retail value of more than $2495.
Hardware features:
- Dual 5¼-inch floppy disk drives
- 4 MHz Z80A CPU
- 124 kibibytes main memory expandable to 384 KiB
- Fold-down keyboard doubling as the computer case's lid
- 7 inch (13cm x 10cm) monochrome CRT display, supporting 80x24 and 52x24 text display modes.
- Parallel printer port
- 2 Serial ports for use with external modems or serial printers
Operating system:
- CP/M+ (CP/M 3.0)
[edit] Games
[edit] Peripherals
[edit] Market life
The Executive was only produced in limited numbers before the company filed for Chapter 11.
