PC Forum, Day Two
Back at PC Forum, where we got to dinner early last night because Larry Ellison was a no-show. I ran a straw poll, asking people if his reported excuse -- "The plane wouldn't start" -- seemed credible. Not credible was the nearly universal response.
Seems to me that Ellison may have combined two cliches I didn't imagine possible to combine: "The dog ate my homework" and "Let them eat cake" -- any others you can think of?
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/
Um...there is an open source contract out on him? (my2$) Adam Osbourne is certainly deceased...
Adam Osborne, RIP?
Sad news if true: Adam Osborne, one of the personal computer industry's most important pioneers, seems to have died, according to this posting on Dave Farber's list.
I'd owned other personal computers before buying the Osborne 1 in 1981; the minute I saw it I knew that my life was going to be improved. The machine was the first true transportable computer. It came bundled with enough software to make me immediately productive, and I used it to file freelance stories to the New York Times and Boston Globe.
Adam Osborne, also an early publisher of computer books, was a leader in ways that changed an industry -- and many lives. (pic.)
• posted by Dan Gillmor 04:21 PM
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