Grid Compass - Wikipedia
网页The 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.
Grid Compass - Complete History of the Grid Compass 1100
网页2023年7月31日 · 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.
NASA’s Original Laptop: The GRiD Compass - IEEE Spectrum
网页2020年5月29日 · 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 ...
GRiD Compass 1101 - old computers
网页Designed 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 …
Pioneering the Laptop: Engineering the GRiD Compass - SIGCIS
网页John stated that we would explore the design and engineering of the first laptop computer - the GRiD Compass 1100. He thinks of the Grid as the "missing link" between what was done with the large computer systems of the 1960s and 1970s and the PC industry, which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s.
Grid Compass - IT History Society
网页The 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.
Pioneering the Laptop: Engineering the GRiD Compass - CHM
网页2006年3月15日 · Introduced in 1982, the GRiD Compass 1100 was likely the first commercial computer created in a laptop format and one of the first truly portable machines. With its rugged magnesium clamshell case (the screen folds flat over the keyboard), switching power supply, electro-luminescent display, non-volatile bubble memory, and built-in modem, the ...
Pioneering the Laptop: Engineering the GRiD compass - YouTube
网页2007年12月7日 · Pioneering the Laptop: Engineering the GRiD compass. [Recorded Mar 15, 2006] Introduced in 1982, the GRiD Compass 1100 was likely the first commercial computer created in a laptop format and...
The GRiD Compass Flew as One of NASA’s First Notebook …
网页The 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?
Clamshell! The story of the best computing form factor ever
网页2012年7月17日 · Take, for instance, Grid Systems’ Grid Compass 1101, a portable computer which was announced in April, 1982. It wasn’t the first computer designed to be toted. It was just the first one in a...