[Recorded Mar 15, 2006] Introduced within 1982, the grating Compass 1100 was likely the first commercial computer created within a laptop format and i of the first truly portable machines. With its rugged magnesium shell case (the screen folds flat over the keyboard), switching power supply, electro-luminescent display, non-volatile bubble recall, and built-in modem, the hardware design incorporated many features that we take for allowed today. Package innovations included a graphic operating system, an integrated productivity suite including word processor, spreadsheet, graphics and e-mail. facility Systems Corporation, founded in 1979 by John Ellenby and his co-founders Cosmonaut Edens and David Paulsen, pioneered oodles portable devices with the laptop, pen-based and tablet NOTEBOOK method factors. Key members of the original GRiD engineering team -- Glenn Edens, Carol Hankins, Craig Mathias and Dave Paulsen -- share engineering stories from the Furious West of the laptop computer. Tempered by New York Times journalist John Markoff.
Rating: 4.96
Tags: Computer, History, Laptop, Tablet, PC, Notebook, grid
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