History of Tablet PC From ancient times until now, Part 1

HI, this first post I will write about the history of the first on the tablet pc, ok just begun:

tablet pc is a kind of a laptop or can be called with a portable computer that looks like a book, using either touch-screen technology using a finger or stylus to replace the keyboard and mouse.

Tablet PCs use LCD touch screen, can be used to write by hand using a kind of special pen called a stylus. The screen can be rotated upward and downward so that the position of land overlooking the keyboard / lap / desk and position the screen to sleep facing upwards (see figure 2 left). Tablet PC screen is also possible to reverse their motion-like movement of people turned around, up to 360 degrees.

Did you know that there is actually a tablet pc before the 1950s but its shape is rather odd:

- Year 1888 -> TELAUTOGRAPH:

1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on the device electrical stylus to capture handwriting

- Year 1945 -> memex:

created by Vannevar Bush

- The first use of the stylus in the computing device is Styalator, shown by Tom Dimond in 1957


- September 1, 1961 -> RAND Tablet:

RAND Tablet, also called Grafacon (for 'Graphic Converter') is one of the initial tablet computers and sells for $ 18,000. 'The stylus is attached feels electrical pulses delivered through a fine conductor box placed beneath the surface of the image.

- Atlas DEC PDP 15:

Tablet officially known as the Atlas PDP December 15 produced for commercial consumption by school and laboratory technology. It was obsolete by 1973, as new technologies and platforms become available. Typewriter 'inherent in the system to produce hard copies of the work done.

- Apple Graphics Tablet 1979:

Although consumer-friendly price, this $ 650 device for the Apple II platform is a huge success. Edible Apple wrote, "Way back before a program like Photoshop to explore the earth, making the pictures on the computer away from the direct process. To make things a little easier, Apple released a graphics tablet in 1979 that allows users to draw on the tablet with a stylus pen creations cable and transfer them to their computers. "

- GridPad (1989):

The GridPad is one of the first tablet PC portable (weighs 5 pounds, a feat for the time). Touchscreen device, the price of $ 2,370, Jeff Hawkins reportedly inspired to create a Palm Pilot. What happened? "With a standard tablet, which GRiDPAD - designed for applications such as data collection businessy in the field - well-reviewed and appears to have sold quite well. But AST (GRID Systems purchased from Tandy, which has been acquired in 1988) experienced problems in mid-1990 -an. When it collapses, which GRiDPAD disappear, "explains Technologizer.

- NCR System 3125 (1991):

An early tablet that runs on an operating system for tablets and PDAs PenPoint. It cost a whopping $ 4,765. In 1991, the New York Times said of the gadgets, "The NCR Corporation has introduced a pen-based 'pull notepad' computers are truly ahead of its time."

- AT&T EO PC (1993):

PC stand 'for' personal communicator '. This portable tablet $ 1,599, which also runs on OS PenPoint, comes with an integrated celluar phone, and fax modems, hard drives, speakers and microphone. Technologizer spill what happened: "AT & T reportedly burned through $ 40 - $ 50 million to buy Go, the company that created the pen PenPoint operating system, and Eo, the spin-off its hardware. After gadget flopped, Ma Bell decided to focus energy on a device similar functionality packed into a few numbers such as form-which is a visionary step given that the smartphone does not exist yet, but months later., in July 1994, he just gave up. "


- Newton Message Pad (1993):

Apple, Inc. the first tablet. Wired write device, "Released in 1993, Newton was one of the first PDA (personal digital assistants) in the market Early models are large, expensive and bug-ridden. Apple. Marketed bad Newton, and was widely ridiculed, forgotten by a strip Doonesbury Garry Trudeau effectively doomed the device.) Then the model is much better, but it never took off Newton. "Newton line was discontinued in 1998.

To be continued...