• 1984

Hardware Description

The Osborne Vixen was a "luggable" portable computer announced by the Osborne Computer Corporation in November 1984, as a follow up to their Osborne 1 and Osborne Executive system. The Vixen had a 4 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor, with 64 KB dynamic RAM. It had a 7-inch diagonal amber display that could show 24 lines by 80 columns of memory mapped video. It used two 400 KB disk drives, utilizing double-density double-sided 5.25" diskettes. As a luggable, it weighed about 18 pounds. Contemporary advertising pointed out that it could fit under the seat in airplane, with dimensions of 12⅝ by 16¼ by 6¼ inches (321 by 413 by 159 mm).