Tablet PC History

Now this who is not familiar with Tablet PC, this latest gadget is being trend among gadget freak and even the general public. Tablet PC is a laptop or portable computer shaped book. It has a touch screen or digital tablet technology that enables computer users to use a stylus or digital pen than a keyboard or computer mouse. The term was popularized by Microsoft in 2001, but tablet PCs now refer to any tablet-sized personal computer, even if you're not using Windows but another PC operating system. Tablets may use virtual keyboards and handwriting recognition for text input through the touchscreen.
The idea of ​​a tablet computer is not new. The history begins in 1968 tablet, a computer scientist Alan Kay noted that with the advancement in flat-panel display technology, user interface, miniaturization of computer components and some experimental work in WiFi technology. Alan Kay is not one - only because it previously had many names - the big names who have contributed to the process of invention and perfected to date. History tablet later, in 1972, he published a paper on the device and called it the "Dynabook". Sketch of the Dynabook showed a very similar device to the tablet computers that we have today, with a few exceptions. In the Dynabook, both screen and keyboard * all * on the same plane. But Kay's vision goes even further. He estimated that with the right touch-screen technology, you can display a virtual keyboard, the configuration on the screen itself.
Kay leading at that time. History proves that the tablet takes almost four decades before the tablet is similar to what he imagined propitiate public. But that does not mean there is not a tablet computer on the market for 4 decades and the Dynabook concept in addition to the famous Apple iPad. Tablet first appeared on the market is GRiDPad. First produced in 1989, GRiDPad including monochromatic capacitance touch screen and stylus cables. Weighing just under 2.26 pounds. Compared to today's tablets, GRiDPad was large and heavy, with a short battery life that lasts only three hours. And the man behind it is GRiDPad Jeff Hawkins, who later founded the Palm. Then there are also other pen-based tablet computers, but he did not receive much support from the community.
Apple was the first to enter the field with the Newton tablet, a device that receives the amount of love and ridicule over the years. Most of the criticism for focusing on Newton's handwriting recognition software. Until finally the peak of tablet history began when Steve Jobs revealed the iPad first to market, and to convince the market that the tablet computer could be a viable consumer product. Today, companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and HP attempt to predict the needs of consumers, while designing the next generation of tablet devices. The discovery tablet pc is a refinement and expansion of existing computer technology. Then never referred specifically who find it.