The Computer That Lost Sales to its Future Self

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Competition is fierce in the computer industry. Probably doesn't help matters when your own future product starts competing against your current model.

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Original Article:
http://www.factfiend.com/computer-lost-sales-future-self/

Sources:
http://thisdayintechhistory.com/04/18/osborne-executive-introduced/
https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n3/24_Osborne_Comptuer_Corporat.php
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/07/living-with-a-computer/306063/
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http://oldcomputers.net/osborne-1.html
https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/history-of-console-codenames-577254/

Videos:
Computer Chronicles (1983 – 2002)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421311
Only Fools and Horses.... (TV Series 1981–2003) - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081912/
The Simpsons (TV Series 1989– ) - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096697/
Osborne 1 Computer Part 3 - Demonstration and Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6PUWZ0FOZM

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Osborne 1, By Bilby [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Osborne Executive, By Casey Fleser (Flickr: Evolution (34 / 365)) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Osborne Vixen, via http://oldcomputers.net/osborne-vixen.html
Adam Osborne, via https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Dj4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&rview=1&pg=PA1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Steve Jobs, Matthew Yohe [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

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"Two Finger Johnny" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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