John Ellenby became well known in the 1980s as the head of Grid, an organization that conveyed what is broadly seen as one of the principal PCs, Compass. He kicked the bucket on Aug. 17 in San Francisco at 75 years old, his child Thomas affirmed to The New York Times.
The Compass highlighted the customary clamshell tablet plan and included a level board show that floated over its console. It was enormous and awkward and dissimilar to anything current gadgets offer, however it was a portable PC, in any case.
Be that as it may, the Compass wasn't intended to speak to buyers, similar to those from Apple, Dell, or HP. Rather, the gadget was worked for government authorities and corporate clients who may have a requirement for a top of the line gadget. Actually, the Compass was at a bargain at the ideal opportunity for $8,150, which as per the Times, adds up to more than $20,000 today.
As per the Times, the Compass was utilized by President Ronald Reagan's national security counselor John Poindexter. James Opfer, chief of the White House Communications Agency, told the Times that he was practically sure the Compass sat nearby the "atomic football" that permits the president to dispatch atomic rockets. The Compass in the end lost some of its gloss in 1980s as different organizations went ahead the scene and offered customers, venture clients, and even the administration less expensive, lighter and all the more capable choices.
Ellenby was conceived in Corbridge, England in 1941. He moved to California in the 1970s to work for Xerox and established Grid in 1979.
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