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I know, I know a #gridcompass #retrocomputing #meme won't fix your #nostalgia. Nor mine.

I love it when something lands right smack dab in the intersection of one or more of my personal interests. I spotted this in the amazing book, "David Grove: An Illustrated Life".

This painting is for a 1984 Learjet annual report. And I'm 99% sure that the laptop being used here is the GRiD Compass, an absolutely fascinating early laptop computer that shows up in *all sorts* of stuff.