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Information trouvée : Adam Osborne (March 6, 1939 - March 18, 2003) was a British author, book and software
publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States
and elsewhere. Born in Thailand to British parents, Osborne spent much of his childhood
in India. Osborne graduated from Birmingham University in 1961 and completed his PhD
at the University of Delaware. He started his career as a chemical engineer with Shell
Oil in the United States and left Shell in the early 1970s to pursue his interest
in computers and technical writing. He was best known for creating the first portable
computer, the Osborne 1, released in April 1981. It