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 many of its predecessors 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)
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[edit] Market life
The Executive was only produced in limited numbers before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
[edit] Uses
While the weight of the Osborne Executive precluded the casual kind of business use notebooks had at clients and out of office locations, the Osborne Executive was still a powerful tool in creating and presenting strategic and business solutions at client sites. The tool differed from most methods of pre-sales and consulting presentation in that it could provide on-the-spot answers to numerically-based issues when working with consulting clients. This laid the groundwork for the kind of 'show me the money' ROI or TCO presentations commonplace today.
