The device, now seen as a bulky relic of a bygone age, was used on the Space Shuttle, and its clamshell case was prized for its durability. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of ...

We've taken the clamshell design of the standard laptop computer for granted for a very long time, and it seems obvious now, but someone invented and patented it. That person was British designer ...

The GRiD Compass is a legendary portable computer — a taste of an early-80s future with bubble memory, tough enough for NASA to take them into space, and one of the machines which defined the ...

Bill Moggridge, original designer of the laptop “clamshell” form, the one that has defined the portable computer since his GRiD Compass first entered the hands of NASA and U.S. Special Forces in 1982, ...

It's a custom keyboard, an artfully dinged-up case, and a wonderful throwback. I wanted a GRiD Compass so bad back in the day. It looked so badass with its plasma screen and black magnesium case, and ...

The industrial designer crafted the Grid Compass, a clamshell computer that debuted in 1982 and that is widely regarded as the first laptop computer. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.

Click to open image viewer. Early Shuttle missions carried a laptop computer made by Grid Systems, Inc. The Grid was chosen because of its rugged metal case and its use of a solid state memory instead ...

It’s been 30 years since the first popular, portable computer with a clamshell case was released. That means the Grid Compass had a built-in keyboard and display, and you could fold the screen over ...