First clamshell laptop
- WHO
- Unknown
- WHAT
- First
- WHERE
- United States (California)
- WHEN
- 18 March 2003
Regarded as the first 'true' laptop, the GRiD Compass was designed in 1979 by William Moggridge (UK) for GRiD Systems Corporation (USA). It was introduced in 1982 with a RAM of 512K.