I would have said Apple, with the LCD screen that went on the Apple 2 C.
But I think that was after 1982.
>
> At 12:36 AM 12/21/99 GMT, you wrote:
> >Who (by company, that is) invented the first "clamshell" laptop? I am
> >tempted to believe it is either GRiD or Zenith Data Systems that introduced
> >this style, but if I had to, I'd lay my money on GRiD.
>
> Take the money and run.
>
> GRiD Compass: 1982 (Sometime in the fall)
> Sharp PC-5000: 1983 (March)
> Gavilan: 1983 (March or April)
> TRS-80 m100: 1983
> TRS-80 m200: 1985?
>
> I don't know what Zenith's first clamshell was, but I'm pretty sure it was
> much later on.
>
>
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