![]() ![]() The first tablet Apple ever released came to life because of weirdo rock icon Todd Rundgren. (via the Apple II Documentation Project) Before there was Wacom, there was … uh, Apple ![]() It, along with the Rand Tablet from 1963, were the earliest forms of stylus-based input. The device was primitive, only accepting characters, but it worked in real time. “Without these,” he adds, “there will be many situations, especially where the volume of input information is large in comparison to the amount of processing, where computers cannot be proven even if they cost little or nothing.” Dimond’s article introduces the concept of the Stylator, a device that is considered the first-ever computerized pen-based drawing tablet. Dimond, an engineer and executive at Bell Labs, describing the use case for hand-written character recognition in a 1957 article. What is needed are methods and devices which will allow these people to produce, by simple and inexpensive means, the initial expression of their information in a form suitable for machine reading.” “Only a little reflection will show that nearly all of the information used by business data processing computers originates in the minds of humans.
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