I've had access to tablets since 1991. Back in the early 1990s, Microsoft was pushing Windows for Pen Computing after companies like Grid and AT&T beat the convicted monopolist to the punch with operating systems that accepted input from pens tapping and dragging on touch screens. Until the iPad, these flat computers failed, of course, because they were a category for which there was no popular demand. There was no popular demand, because the hardware and software were wrong. The earliest tablet computers, like the Grid, adapted a version of DOS or created a new OS. They required the use... Read more →
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