Paul Allen & Bill Gates

The Osborne 1, the first portable computer
  • 1980 - Hewlett-Packard releases the HP-85
  • Apple announces the Apple II
  • Microsoft signs a consulting agreement with IBM to produce an operating system

 

  • 1981 - Osborne Computer Corporation incorporates and a short time later introduces the Osborne 1, the first portable computer
  • Steve Wozniak suffers a plane crash
  • "Black Wednesday" firings occur at Apple
  • Xerox releases the 8010 Star and the 820 computers
  • IBM announces its Personal Computer

IBM Personal computer