Kaumua
Ua hānauʻiaʻo Osborne ma Thailand i Malaki 6, 1939, i nā mākua Pelekānia a ua hoʻohanaʻo ia i ka hapanui o kona'ōpiopio i India. Ua heleʻo ia i ke kula a ua pukaʻo ia mai ke kulanuiʻo Birmingham i ka makahiki 1961, a ma hope iho ua loaʻaʻo ia iā Ph.D. mai ke Kulanui o Delaware.
Ua hoʻomakaʻo ia i kānaʻoihana ma keʻano he mechanical engineer e hana ana no Shell Oil, a laila haʻalele ia i ka hoʻomakaʻana o nā makahiki 1970 eʻimi i ka hoihoi i nā komipona a me nā palapala loea.
Ua hoʻokumuʻo ia i ka Osborne Publishing i ka makahiki 1972, he mea maʻalahi i nā'ōnaehana loiloi. ʻO kāna puke mua loa a me kaʻoi aku paha o ka pukeʻoihana he "He Hōʻikeʻike i nā Microcomputers." Ua hōʻikeʻia,ʻo kekahi o nā hana mua loa a Bill Gates lāuaʻo Paul Allen i kahakaha loa mai kēia palapala kula. Ua hōʻoleʻia e nā mea paʻi hou, ua kūʻai hopeʻia ka puke i 300,000 kope aʻo ka iwi hope o Osborne Publishing.
Ma ka makahiki 1977, uaʻoi aku ma mua o 40 mau pelekaniʻo Osborne Publishing, a ma ka makahiki 1979, ua kūʻaiʻo Osborne i ka hui i McGraw-Hill no ka loheʻia he $ 3 miliona, me ka hoʻohanaʻana i ke kālā e hoʻomaka aiʻo Osborne Computer Corporation.
ʻO Osborne Computer Corporation
I ka makahiki 1981, ua hoʻolaunaʻo ia i ka kamepiula'elepona mua, i kapaʻiaʻo Osborne 1. Ua kaupaona ia he 23 mau paona, i hiki ke komo i lalo o kahi noho mokulele, a he $ 1,795 ia, aiʻole ka hapalua o ka lilo o nā computer mai nā mea hana'ē aʻe me nā hiʻohiʻona like.
Ua holo ka kọmputa i ke kikowaena CP / M-he kūlana kaulana i mua o ka hoʻokomoʻiaʻana o MS-DOS-a uaʻikeʻia he'ōpili piha a he 5-inima, kahi i nānāʻia e ka monchrome. Ua hoʻokuʻu ka hui i nā $ 10,000 i kēlā me kēia mahina, a ua manaʻoʻia he lanakila nui loa, loaʻa $ 6 miliona ma ka makahiki 1981 a me $ 68 miliona ma ka makahiki aʻe.
ʻO ka hāʻule o Osborne Computer
ʻO kekahi mea i hāpai i ka hāʻuleʻana o Osborne Computers i ka manawa i hoʻoheneheneʻo Osborne i ka pāʻani nūhou e pili ana i nā'ōnaehana kūʻokoʻaʻelua e hana ana ka hui. ʻO ka kūʻaiʻana o ka Osborne 1 i hoʻomaloʻoʻia ua hoʻomaloʻoʻia e like me nā mea kūʻai i hoʻopaʻaʻia no nā mīkini hou. ʻO ka hopena, he waihona waiwai kūʻai, a ua hoʻokauʻia ka hui no ka banekorupa. ʻO ka hoʻokūkū mai ka IBM a me nā mea'ē aʻe i kaʻoihana polokalamu kelepona pilikino i hoʻokomo pū i nā hakakā o Osborne Computer.
Nā puke
Ma hope o ka hāʻuleʻana o kāna hui kamepiula, ua kākauʻo Osborne a paipai i nā puke maikaʻi loa e pili ana i konaʻike,ʻo ia hoʻiʻo "Hypergrowth:ʻO ke alaʻana a me ka hāʻule o Osborne Computer Corporation."
ʻOihana Publishing
I ka makahiki 1984, ua hoʻokumuʻo Osborne i ka Paperback Software International, ka mea i hoʻolakoʻia i nā polokalamu kamepiula maikaʻiʻole. ʻO ka hoʻolaha hoʻolahaʻana o nā huiʻo Osborneʻo ia e hoʻopaʻapaʻa ana inā inā hoʻohana nā poʻe kelepona i nā manaʻo likeʻole i kā lākou ukuʻana e like me nā hui polokalamu lakohana, e kūʻaiʻia he $ 600.
Ua kākoʻoʻo Lotus Corporation i ka Paperback i ka makahiki 1987, e hoʻopaʻa ana i kekahi o nā papa Paperback i kū'ē i ka papahana Lotus 1-2-3. ʻO kēia ka mea i hōʻoiaʻiʻoʻia ka mea kūʻai a me ka hoʻokele kālā i lalo no Paperback, a lanakilaʻo Lotus i ka makahiki 1990.
Ua hele kokeʻo Osborne mai ka hui ma hope koke iho.
ʻO ka make
I ka makahiki 1992, ua hoʻiʻo Osborne i kona home ma'Āina ma hope o ka loaʻaʻana i nā maʻi he nui i hanaʻia e kekahi maʻi maʻi loloʻole. Ua makeʻo ia ma ka makahiki 64 i ka makahiki 2003 ma Kodaikanal, India.