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 ...

If I had to figure out what to do with the insides of a Framework 13 laptop I had lying around after today, I might not turn it into a strange but compelling “Slabtop” this time. No, I think that, ...

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, who has died aged 69 of cancer, designed the world's first laptop, the Grid Compass. But it is not being first that makes you famous in the digital universe – it is being able to do ...

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 ...

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 ...