The World’s First GPIB Speech Synthesizer, and it’s for a GRiD Compass (opens in new tab)

Hackaday - Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 11:30 AM The World’s First GPIB Speech Synthesizer, and it’s for a GRiD Compass The GRiD Compass is a legendary portable computer — a taste of an early-80s future with bubble memory, tough enough for NASA to take them into space, and one of the machines which defined the beginnings of the form factor we know today as a laptop. They’re not easy to come by, but [Scott M. Baker] got his hands on one. As well as nursing it back to health, he’s made an unusual ...