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The first laptop was made in 1981 by British Designer Adam Osborn.

GRiD Systems Corporation


helped improve his design. GRiD made the product with a fold-down display that covered the
keyboard. It was called the GriD Compass. In 1982, GRiD Systems began to make many GriD
Compass laptops. They were mostly sold to NASA and the Military of the United States.
GRiD's computer was one fifth the weight of any other computer used at that time. NASA used
the laptop in its Space Shuttle program, in the 1980s. The Grid Compass required mains power.
GRiD owned patents for the "Clamshell" design which is used in almost all modern laptop
designs. GRiD Systems was bought by Tandy Corporation in 1988.
The portable micro computer the Portal of the French company R2E Micral CCMC officially
appeared in September 1980 at the SICOB show in Paris. The Portal was based on an Intel
8085 processor, 8-bit, clocked at 2 MHz. It was equipped with a central 64K byte Ram, a
keyboard with 58 alpha numeric keys and 11 numeric keys (separate blocks), a 32-character
LED screen, a floppy disk: capacity = 140 000 characters, a thermal printer: speed = 28
characters / second, an asynchronous channel, a synchronous channel, a 220V power supply. It
weighed 12 kg and its dimensions were 45 cm × 45 cm × 15 cm. It had no hinge and its
operating system was Prolog.[2]

Osbourne 1 portable computer

Some historians, however, count as the first "true" portable the Osborne 1. It was created in 1981
by Adam Osborne who was also a former book publisher. He was the founder of Osborne
Computer. His portable computer weighed 11 kg (24 pounds).
The computer had a five-inch screen, a serial port and two floppy disk drives. Several programs
were included with the Osborne 1. Customers could also buy a 1-hour battery pack.
Also in 1981, another laptop computer called Epson HX-20 went on sale. It was a portable
computer with a liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor. The computer also included a built-in
printer. The whole device could be battery powered.
One year later, in 1982, two computer designers from Microsoft, Kazuhiko Nishi and Bill Gates,
discussed a new portable computer. The main thing about the computer was a new LCD
technology. The prototype of the new laptop was presented to Radio Shack. Radio Shack agreed
to start making the computer. A year later the company launched its TRS-80 Model 100, which
was a computer that looked pretty much like the laptops that we know today. In 1986 the
company created its improved version called TRS Model 200. The following two years saw the
appearance of a laptop PC from Compaq Computers and the first notebook-style laptop from
NEC called NEC UltraLite.
The year 1989 was quite successful for laptop producers. First there was Apple Computer that
developed its first portable computer called Macintosh Portable the evolution of which turned it
into PowerBook. Then the company named Zenith Data Systems introduced its Zenith MinisPort
– a portable computer weighing 6 pounds (2.5 kg). Finally there was Compaq Computer that
designed its first laptop PC called Compaq LTE.
The development of laptops continued with various upgrades and additional functions added. In
2005, an organisation called One Laptop Per Child started trying to improve education using
cheap laptops.
Notebook computers are small laptops. After 2010 people bought fewer laptops because tablet
computers are even more portable.[3] Some laptops have touch screen like tablet computers.
The year 2020 once time in the history ,The Laptop manufactories from Hardware this is refer to
formed inside PC, be inside other behind from Digital Transformation the Andriod system
transmitted to Laptop system 2020s.

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