It cost more than $8,000 in 1982, or almost $25,000 today. We have it on good word from some resident vintage computer collectors that the Compass remains a rare and expensive item to get.

Inspired by the design of the GRiD Compass computer (circa 1982), this little laptop borrows the style of classic laptops, but features modern parts including an 11th-gen Intel Core processor, a ...

Take, for instance, Grid Systems’ Grid Compass 1101, a portable computer which was announced in April, 1982. It wasn’t the first computer designed to be toted. It was just the first one in a ...

Take, for instance, Grid Systems’ Grid Compass 1101, a portable computer which was announced in April, 1982. It wasn’t the first computer designed to be toted.

Top image: GRiD Compass computer, 1982. Above: next-generation GRiD Compass computer, 1984.

portable computer 28 Articles 3D Printed Pi Laptop Honors The Iconic GRiD Compass January 11, 2021 by Tom Nardi 28 Comments ...

The GRiD Compass 1101 was innovative in its use of storage, too. It didn't include a floppy drive — something that IBM's Think Pad 240 also dispensed with in 1999 — or a CD drive, because the ...

The Grid Compass, which was even used in space, cost £5095 ($8,150) when it was released in 1982 Rugged computer went aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 198 5 ...

I do wish there was a real modern GRiD Compass. I don't mind luggable. Also, the GRiD Compass is the computer used in the sentry gun scene in Aliens.

Grid, however, packed the Compass’s magnesium case with cutting-edge technologies and priced its computer at a daunting $8,150, or around $19,000 in current dollars.