The Grid Compass is a family of laptop computers introduced in 1982 by the Grid Systems Corporation. The design for the Compass was rendered by Bill Moggridge...

A grid compass known as well as grid steering compass, is a navigating instrument. It is a design of magnetic compass that facilitates steering a steady...

2009-05-30. "GRiD Compass 1101 computer". Retrieved 9 January 2010. Wikimedia Commons has media related to GRiD Systems Corporation. GRiD history 1979–2020...

wandering. Magnetic north is the direction that the north end of a magnetized compass needle points, which corresponds to the direction of the Earth's magnetic...

laptop to be called a notebook.: 9  The first clamshell laptop, the Grid Compass, was made in 1982. Enclosed in a magnesium case, it introduced the now...

was also much better-built and more reliable. The Grid Compass ran its own operating system, GRiD-OS. Its specialized software and high price (US$8,000–10...

diameter Compass Adrianov compass Astrocompass Geological compass Grid compass Hand compass History of the compass Marine sandglass Prismatic compass Qibla...

GridCase (stylized as GRiDCASE) is a line of rugged tablets and laptops by Grid Systems Corporation released as a successor of the GRiD Compass line....

up compass in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A compass is a navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles. Compass may...

lighter but still needed to be plugged in. The first laptops, such as the Grid Compass, removed this requirement by incorporating batteries – and with the continued...

1986, thus being developed and launched prior to the development of the Grid Compass. The Magnum was launched publicly at the 10th Australian Computer Conference...

internationally until 1984–85. The US$8,150 (equivalent to $26,550 in 2024) GRiD Compass 1101, released in 1982, was used at NASA and by the military, among others...

computers of the 1980s such as the Commodore 64 than early laptops like the Grid Compass. The Baby! 1 was announced in August 1976 by start-up company STM Systems...

using the direction northwards along the grid lines of the map projection as a reference point. A compass bearing, as in vehicle or marine navigation...

well as monitor scientific and payload data. Early missions brought the Grid Compass, one of the first laptop computers, as the PGSC, but later missions brought...

subtracted in the use of compass for geography Grid declination, angle between the compass north and north direction of the map coordinate grid Clinamen, a concept...

Burt's solar compass or astronomical compass/sun compass is a surveying instrument that makes use of the Sun's direction instead of magnetism. William...

disks. Can become Data Compatible. Examples: Altos 586, DEC Rainbow 100, Grid Compass, Victor 9000. During development, Compaq engineers found that Microsoft...

was a British businessman. He was the founder of Grid Systems Corporation, maker of the Grid Compass, one of the first commercially successful laptop...

Ultralite 286F, 286V, and the NEC UltraLite Versa models. History of laptops Grid Compass HP 200LX NEC Ultralite specifications, NEC FastFacts Lewis, Peter H....

1964 D-37C; as well as one of the earliest laptop computers, the 1982 Grid Compass. Military requirements for a computer small enough to fit through a submarine's...

National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London, England. Its principal activities are in the...

Pointing the compass pinnula to the star (sun or moon) Reading the true course on the limb Compass direction using a watch Grid compass Solar compass Barnfield...

physical implementation) used for a specific microprocessor design. The GRID Compass laptop, for instance. Including the 8088, 80186, 80188 and 80286 processors...

fully restored. In April 2007, the first satellite of BeiDou-2, namely Compass-M1 (to validate frequencies for the BeiDou-2 constellation) was successfully...

computer in 1982 by the laptop manufacturer GRiD (who had the patents on the idea at the time) for their Compass model. In 1985, the Ampere WS-1 laptop used...

and cried P.E.: "Five knots and four fathoms!.. Water clock Hourglass Grid compass Rhumbline network Catalan navy Balmer, R. T. "The Operation of Sand Clocks...

Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England. It is the largest contract foodservice company...

An overlapping circles grid is a geometric pattern of repeating, overlapping circles of an equal radius in two-dimensional space. Commonly, designs are...

called a projected coordinate reference system, planar coordinate system, or grid reference system – is a type of spatial reference system that represents...