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Adam Osborne
British computer designer (1939–2003)
Adam Osborne (6 March 1939 – 18 March 2003) was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.
Early life
[edit]Osborne was born to British parents in Bangkok, Thailand on 6 March 1939.[1] His father, Arthur Osborne, was a teacher of eastern tro and philosophy[1] and a lecturer in English at Chulalongkorn University. All members of the family were fluent in the Tamil language. He spent World War II in Tiruvannamalai, in southern India, with his mother. There they were frequent visitors to Sri Ramana Maharshi's Ashram [1] He attended Presentation Convent School in Kodaikanal until Class 6.[citation needed] In 1950, the Osborne family moved back to England.[2] From the age of 11, he was educated at a Cath
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Osborne, Adam
(b. 6 March 1939 in Bangkok, Thailand; d. 18 March 2003 in Kodaikanal, India), executive who introduced the portable computer.
Osborne was born in Thailand to British parents, Arthur Osborne, a university professor, and Lucia (Lipsziczudna) Osborne, a homemaker. Arthur Osborne, a student and popularizer of Eastern religion, moved the family to the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi, in Tamil Nadu, India, soon after Osborne’s birth. Osborne was sent to boarding school in England at age eleven and remained in the United Kingdom to attend the University of Birmingham, where he received a BSc in chemical engineering in 1961. That same year he immigrated to the United States for graduate studies in chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, from which he received an MChE in 1966 and a PhD in 1967. During his studies Osborne married Cynthia Geddes, with whom he had three children; the marriage later ended in divorce. He subsequently married Barbara Burdick, althou