30 Years Ago: Osborne 1 -- 24 Pounds of Portable Goodness

That odd looking (by 2011 standards) 24 lbs. heavy device with the tiny smartphone-sized display (5-inches) pictured here (photo courtesy of Wikipedia) is the Osborne 1. If you were alive and a gadget geek of any sort in 1981, this was the first widely available full-function consumer-grade portable computer. It cost an $1795 and came with 64KB RAM, dual floppy drives, an office software suite, and ran the CP/M operating system.

Grab a Dell Streak 5 (if you can find one), stare at its display and then imagine working on it all day as your portable computer.