In the US, died one of the founders of the first portable computer – Arguments and Facts

Moscow, August 27 -. AIF-Moscow

In the United States at the age of 75 years died, one of the inventors of the first portable computer – the predecessor of today’s notebooks – John Allenby

<. p> according to The New York Times, in computer engineering expert died on August 17 at his home in San Francisco. The cause of his death has not been established.

In the early 1980s the Briton Allenby founded in California company Grid Systems, which developed the first portable computer Compass.

At the market he was released in 1982 year and was worth at the time quite expensive – 8.15 thousand dollars. The first buyers of the laptops have become special forces and US intelligence agencies.