Adam Osborne, British pioneer of the portable microcomputer is back in the hardware business, reports the Newsbytes newswire. Osborne told the wire that he’s on the board of directors of a Silicon Valley start-up that is an off-shoot of SVT Computers Pte Ltd of India. He says the firm is currently assembling and testing AT-compatible boards for shipment to US and Canadian markets, but that personal computers are on the horizon – and that he’s got a customer who wants to buy 15,000 computers a month. His current company, Paperback Software Inc, also hopes to make its fortune with a bundling deal it has clinched to supply the Indian school system with its software. India has agreed to bundle copies of Paperback’s VP Planner, VP Expert, and VP Info with each computer sold into the school system. No numbers are available on the deal, but Osborne believes that at least a million personal computers will be sold into the Indian school system the first year alone.
