Tablet computer, also known as tablet computer, is a small portable personal computer with touch screen as its basic input device.
Its touch screen (also known as tablet technology) allows users to do their homework with a stylus or digital pen instead of a traditional keyboard or mouse.
Users can input through the built-in handwriting recognition, on-screen soft keyboard, voice recognition or real keyboard (if the model is equipped).
In the late 1960s, AlanKay of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center put forward the concept of "Dynabook". He imagines that it is a computer that can be carried around, and its main function is to help children learn.
In order to develop Dynabook, Allen even invented the Smalltalk programming language and developed a graphical user interface, which is the embryonic form of Apple Macintosh. However, due to various objective reasons, the center does not support this idea.
1September 1989, GRiD Systems successfully manufactured the first commercial tablet computer and named it GRiD Pad. Its operating system is based on MS-DOS.
It can be said that from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, tablet computers were still in the initial exploration stage. Due to the limitation of hardware technology such as core chips, tablet computers are only popularized and used in a small range. Real commercialization should start with Microsoft. NET strategy conference in the new millennium.
In June, 2000, Microsoft first showed off a tablet computer that was still in the development stage. NET strategy ".
In June 2000, 165438+ 10, at Comdex Fall 2000, one of the three major computer exhibitions in the world, Mr. Gates gave a special speech on TabletPC, and defined Tablet PC as "all-around PC based on Windows operating system".
On June 8th, 2002, 65438+February 8th, 2002, Microsoft officially released TabletPC Edition and its special operating system Windows XP in new york, which marked that the tablet PC officially entered the commercial sales stage.
On the other hand, on 20 10, 654381October 27th, the rumored first-generation iPad was also unveiled. Of course, the concepts of Pad and tablet are very different.