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Article: Tablet PC not quite the final word.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 14, 2002
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Byline: Tom Regan
Before we can talk about the tablet PC we have to go into my attic. Up the winding stairs, behind boxes of toys and on top of a dusty filing cabinet, sit two old Apple Newtons.
The Apple Newton was the first great attempt at pen-based computing. It failed miserably.
The biggest problem was that Apple oversold the handwriting-recognition powers of the Newton. Many was the time I would write something like "spotted dog," and Newton's software would scramble the words into something like "Pass me the piano."
When Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled its tablet PC operating system in New York last week, he was quick to ...