Although the Osborne 1 was not my first computer (it was preceeded by the TRS 80 and Commodore 64 in my house), it was easily my early favorite. I bought a pair of them for about $800 each on close-out when my correcting Selectric died and I needed a typer for my business. I still have them up in the attic somewhere. I also added a pair of Gorilla external monitors for $99 each and a 300 baud modem for $150: imagine watching ASCII text transfers crawling across the screen! Long after they were replaced by an IBM PC and then an AT&T (Olivetti) with the blazing fast 8086 chip, my wife continued to use Supercalc to keep the PTA books. My favorite memory was visiting a Bell Labs site where I was working on executive speeches in 1984 and using my tiny Osborne to drive some of the biggest line printers I have ever seen before or since. The dot commands used by WordStar were close to those used by the flavor of VI in those days that I was able to fake my way through transcribing those speeches on terminals as part of that visit. Sorry to hear of Adam Osborne's untimely demise: I think he will be remembered more as a pioneering visionary who changed forever the way personal computers would be sold than one who made a bold and humane marketing error.