Grid Compass - Wikipedia
WEBThe Grid Compass is a family of laptop computers introduced in 1982 by the Grid Systems Corporation. The design for the Compass was rendered by Bill Moggridge . Owing to its clamshell design —the first in a portable computer —some historians credit the original Compass as the first ever laptop.
NASA’s Original Laptop: The GRiD Compass - IEEE Spectrum
WEBMay 29, 2020 · The GRiD Compass Was the First Laptop to Feature a Clamshell Design. The Graphical Retrieval Information Display (GRiD) Compass had a unique clamshell design, in which the monitor folded down over the keyboard.
GRiD Compass 1101 - old computers
WEBDesigned to be the ultimate portable computer, the clamshell-style GRiD Compass 1101 is the grand-daddy of all present-day laptop computers. The Compass is very high-tech, with its flat-black, die-cast magnesium-alloy case, and …
Grid Compass - Complete History of the Grid Compass 1100
WEBJul 31, 2023 · Moggridge designed the computer in 1979, but the first GRiD Compass (the computer was announced in marketing materials as Model 1100, but it did not exist, the released machine was the Model 1101) was released in April 1982, at a price 8150 USD. The manufacturer was GRiD Systems Corporation, Mountain View, California.
Clamshell! The story of the best computing form factor ever
WEBJul 17, 2012 · 1982's Grid Systems' Grid Compass 1101 was the first laptop. Nobody was smart enough to declare its basic design would dominate the PC business
Grid Compass - IT History Society
WEBThe Grid Compass (written GRiD by its manufacturer GRiD Systems Corporation) was one of the first laptop computers when the initial model was introduced in April 1982 (the model 1101). The computer was designed by British industrial designer Bill Moggridge in 1979, and first sold three years later.
GRiD Compass - The Interface Experience: Bard Graduate Center
WEBDesigned by interaction design pioneer Bill Moggridge, the GRiD Compass featured a hinged fold-down screen that opened to reveal a thin keyboard built into the base. Now a standard element of the laptop computer, this clamshell design allowed users to adjust the screen for optimal viewing when open and to protect the screen and keyboard when ...
How the Clamshell Laptop Changed Computer Design Forever - Gizmodo
WEBJul 16, 2012 · The Grid Compass, from April, 1982, was the first clamshell laptop ever created. TIME dove deep inside the clamshell design’s history and compared it with the motley crew of failed portable...
The GRiD Compass Flew as One of NASA’s First Notebook …
WEBThe GRiD Compass’s durable clamshell design made it ideal for the rigors of space travel and it wound up accompanying astronauts on NASA shuttle missions in the 1980s and ’90s. How did this gadget pass into lore as one of the first notebooks, and influence the design of notebooks for decades to come?
A Milestone of Early Laptop Computer Development
WEBMay 15, 2019 · Not only is the GRiD Compass one of the first laptop computers, with its innovative clamshell case, but it was also designed by Bill Moggridge, an industrial designer who went on to became director of Cooper Hewitt from 2010 until his death in 2012.