{"id":11748,"date":"2009-09-14T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:36:10","slug":"technologizer-worlds-weirdest-portable-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/technologizer-worlds-weirdest-portable-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Technologizer: World\u2019s Weirdest Portable Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/harrywp.jpg\" alt=\"harryd\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Harry McCracken<\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t many pieces of technological design that simply can\u2019t be improved upon, but the clamshell-style laptop computer case\u2013introduced by Grid Systems in 1982\u2013may be one of them. That\u2019s why the vast majority of the portable computers built ever since have used it. But for more than a quarter-century now, inventors have been trying to top it, with folding screens, screens on stalks, folding keyboards, two-screen clamshells, tri-fold clamshells, and more. Most never even get off the drawing board. Herewith, a gallery of designs from Google Patents (click the filing dates to see the patents). There\u2019s only one in here I might have considered buying, but on some perverse level I admire them all. <\/p>\n<p><b>Portable computer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Patent filed October 18th, 1982<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the groundbreaking granddaddy of all clamshell-style laptops\u2013Grid\u2019s Compass 1101, which also sported other, less lasting innovations such as a plasma display and bubble memory. The hinge was in the middle rather than the edge, but machines such as the TRS-80 Model 200 soon changed that. I wish my MacBook Pro had a fold-out foot like the one seen here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090914portable_fig2.jpg\" alt=\"portable computer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Three layered laptop computer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Patent filed October 27th, 1987<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I understand that not every portable computer can be a wafer-thin MacBook Air. But this one seemingly combines an Apple II-like computer with a superchunky display with an Epson FX80-style dot matrix printer\u2013it looks like it would have made for a machine that was around eight inches thick. I make no guesses about how much the whole contraption would have weighed, but I bet the shoulder strap depicted in this illustration was there out of necessity. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090914portable_fig3.jpg\" alt=\"portable computer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/09\/07\/weird-laptops\/\" target=\"_blank\">ARTICLE CONTINUED HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[This post is excerpted with Harry&#8217;s permission from his <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technologizer<\/a> blog.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/harrywp.jpg\" alt=\"oncomputers\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Harry McCracken<\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t many pieces of technological design that simply can\u2019t be improved upon, but the clamshell-style laptop computer case\u2013introduced by Grid Systems in 1982\u2013may be one of them. That\u2019s why the vast majority of the portable computers built ever since have used it. But for more than a quarter-century now, inventors have been trying to top it, with folding screens, screens on stalks, folding keyboards, two-screen clamshells, tri-fold clamshells, and more. Most never even get off the drawing board. Herewith, a gallery of designs from Google Patents (click the filing dates to see the patents). There\u2019s only one in here I might have considered buying, but on some perverse level I admire them all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[2517,48,2554,2555,2556,2350,2557,1747,6,4888],"class_list":["post-11748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologizer","tag-aren","tag-computer","tag-computer-patent","tag-dot-matrix-printer","tag-folding-screens","tag-google-patents","tag-laptop-computer-case","tag-october","tag-portable","tag-technologizer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Technologizer: World\u2019s Weirdest Portable Computers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Harry McCracken There aren\u2019t many pieces of technological design that simply can\u2019t be improved upon, but the clamshell-style laptop computer case\u2013introduced by Grid Systems in 1982\u2013may be one of them. 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