#2MB floppy on my A3000
05-Jan-92 03:02:21
Sb: #18712-#2MB floppy on my A3000
Fm: Michael Gerard 75505,1757
To: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
from The Home Computer Wars Mike Tomcyzk (c) 1984 Compute! Books
"Unfortunately, after the Osborne I was introduced, Adam Osborne couldn't
follow his opening act fast enough with next-generation products, and his
company went under due to a combination of industry attrition, financial
problems, and competition from more sophisticated portables like the
IBM-compatible Compaq, which appealed to the same market as the Osborne. As
fortunes tumbled, the company went from 1000 employess to 80 employees in
five months and filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 1983."
Vic:
Osborne lost out to the competition. The poor marketing decisions were a
last ditch effort to forestall the decline of the company; an attempt to
buy time. Announcing the Executive was a marketing decision made as a
REACTION to the decline of Osborne and the rise of competition, not just a
stupid mistake that killed the sales of the Osborne I. That is the history
as I read it.
– Whapp!ng from the North Coast Michael