> So if you want to know what a journalist or travelling salesman might have had to > play with in the early ’80s, give the osborne1 a spin.
I'm always happy to see a driver in MAME become reference quality like the Osborne 1.
And while journalists in the early 80s were known to have Osbornes, many more of them had the Radio Shack Model 100/102 (aka NEC PC-8201 in Japan and Olivetti M10 in Europe; Kyocera actually designed and built all of them). Check out the top comment through that link for one retired newspaperman's story.
If the Commodore LCD had actually happened and early enough it might have put a dent into that market.