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...

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...

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

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....

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...

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

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

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...