Bill
Moggridge is the initial designer of portable computer with a screen that can
be closed, now better known as a laptop. At age 69 he died after suffering from
cancer, it is known from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, museums national
design, which Moggridge worked from the year 2010.
Computer
with clamshell design called the Grid Compass was designed in 1979, which is
now known as the first laptop design. Grid Compass was released in 1982 and
when it was priced at $ 8.150. The first laptop design using magnesium alloy
casing, Intel 8086 processor, screen resolution of 320 × 240 pixel
electroluminescent display.
The
high price is because the OS is special and limited only marketed to the U.S.
military alone. This laptop also fly into space on the Space Shuttle Discovery
in 1985. Moggridge ever received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 and the
Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2010.
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