History

Pen accretion has actual abysmal actual roots. The abyss of these roots can be absolutely hasty to bodies who are alone accustomed with accepted bartering products. For example, the aboriginal apparent for an cyberbanking book acclimated for autography was accepted in 1888.7 What is apparently the aboriginal apparent for a arrangement that accustomed handwritten characters by allegory the autography motion was accepted in 1915.8 The aboriginal publicly-demonstrated arrangement appliance a book and autography argument acceptance instead of a keyboard for alive with a avant-garde agenda computer dates to 1956.9

In accession to abounding bookish and analysis systems, there were several companies with bartering articles in the 1980s: Pencept, Communications Intelligence Corporation, and Linus were amid the best accepted of a awash field. Later, GO Corp. brought out the PenPoint OS operating arrangement for a book PC product: one of the patents from GO association was the accountable of contempo contravention accusation apropos the Book PC operating system.10

The afterward timeline account gives some of the highlights of this history:

Before 1950

1888: U.S. Apparent accepted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus accessory for capturing handwriting.117

1915: U.S. Apparent on autography acceptance user interface with a stylus.128

1942: U.S. Apparent on touchscreen for autography input.1314

1945: Vannevar Bush proposes the Memex, a abstracts archiving accessory including autography input, in an article As We May Think.15

1950s

Tom Dimond demonstrates the Styalator cyberbanking book with pen for computer ascribe and autography recognition