Bill Moggridge designs the first laptop prototype

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The Grid Compass, the first laptop with the archetypal hinged screen. This is a Laptop computer prototype. It was designed by Bill Moggridge and manufactured by GRiD Systems Corp. and design team member: Steve Hobson and Glenn Edens and firm: ID Two. It is dated 1981 and we acquired it in 2010. Its medium is die-cast magnesium, injection-molded plastic. I…

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