In Australia, there was a separate company called Osborne that indeed marketed the Osborne I -- but continued to live on and sell PC clones after the American Osborne went out of business.

It's a bit like Australian Woolworth's.

I'm guessing this was about Aussie Osborne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_%28computer_retailer%29

Yup, that sounds correct.