Thirty Years of Clamshell Computing

[wraggster]

2012 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Grid Compass 1101, the first portable computer with a briefcase-like case with a keyboard on one side of the interior, a flat screen on the other, and a hinge in the middle--the 'clamshell' design that eventuallybecame standard for all portable PCs (http://techland.time.com/2012/07/16/clamshell-the-history-of-the-greatest-computing-form-factor-of-all-time/). It's proven to be a remarkably useful and durable design, and only with the advent of the iPad has it faced serious competition

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/16/171252/thirty-years-of-clamshell-computing