Bill Moggridge, the man behind the first laptop computer, passed away at the age of 69 on Saturday following a battle with cancer, the Associated Press reported. Moggridge, a British-born designer ...

Apple’s first attempt at a portable laptop computer in 1989 resulted in the Macintosh Portable, which at 16 pounds nearly weighed as much as the desktop that had preceded it.

Moggridge, however, designed the GRiD Compass laptop (1982) around an early flat screen produced by Sharp. This was a yellow-on-black electroluminescent panel that could display 80 characters of ...

William (Bill) Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer and a member of Stanford University’s design faculty for nearly 30 years, died on September 8 after a battle with lung cancer. He ...

Apple’s first attempt at a portable laptop computer in 1989 resulted in the Macintosh Portable, which at 16 pounds nearly weighed as much as the desktop that had preceded it.

The first computer I ever laid hands on was probably the original 128k Macintosh. (It's still in the house that I grew up in, in storage!) ... My first laptop was a big deal.

It was, in other words, the first computer with a clamshell case – or, to use a more common term, the first laptop. Time.com: 14 masterpieces of gadget design.

The credit for the first “laptop” computer in space goes to a Mac Portable flown on STS-43 in 1991. When I worked at NASA, our office had one of these computers which we referred to (lovingly ...