Harry McCracken
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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Exactly.
I reviewed an IBM um
luggable computer with a plasma display that
I wanna say it was like eight eighteen thousand dollars and
Before you adjust it for inflation.
By the way, speaking of
Speaking of luggables, I recently saw this documentary on Adam Osborne, the in uh the who uh company put out the first luggable.
This is a great documentary.
It may end up on um public T V at some point.
It's one of the best things that one of the best things I've seen on computer history.
Yeah, although maybe that actually did not kill the company.
They they had like serious cash flow problems.
but this documentary is full of v vintage footage of of Adam and other people.
Did you know him?
No, um I did not.
I um I made a I wrote a long article about him a few years ago and um I interviewed Dvorak, who w yes worked with with Adam on his book and knew him well and I I talked to a bunch of people who knew him.
He he he uh eventually had really poor health and died uh early in this century.
The compact was essentially an an IBM comp compatible Osborne in the early days.
smaller than a smartphone screen.
It came with Wordstar and maybe SuperCalc and um several other it came it came with um
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