the first real laptop was the GRID Compass. A British man, William Moggridge,made it in 1979 for GRID sYSTEMS Corporation.It was 5 Kg, and had a 340 kilobyte memory.It was very expensive, about $9,000, but the US governmnet liked the small computer and bought a lot of them. NASA used a GRID Compass on the Space Shuttle in ther early 1980s.