[SIGCIS-Members] Origin of the Tablet

[Evan Koblentz]

Another interesting one (a full computer, not just an input tablet) is 
the Linus WriteTop, circa 1987:
http://oldcomputers.net/linus.html

I interview its inventor a few years ago and he sent me a box of 
internal documents.


On 12/18/2014 01:31 PM, McMillan, William W wrote:
> Back around 1980, when I was a grad student at Case Western Reserve U., a fellow was doing a sabbatical in the Psych Department, developing software for a real-time writing surface connected to an Apple IIe.  You wrote with a pen on the surface and the writing appeared on the screen of the Apple.  It was to help kids with special needs learn to write.  This guy was from Australia, but I forget his name.  He was writing in 6502 assembler in order to get the response speed he needed.  It seemed to work well, and the display kept up with your writing.
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> Not a tablet computer, but maybe related.  Don't know if the work was ever published.  If anyone's interested, I can follow the trail back and try to get some information.
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> - Bill
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> A nice piece today on the CHM Blog by Assistant Curator Alex Lux.
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> Enjoy: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/yesterdays-tomorrows-the-origins-of-the-tablet/
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