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-The History of The Tablet-

Published on Nov 25, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE HISTORY OF THE TABLET

PRESENTATION BY: GRACE YERETZIAN

Tablets were created to be computers that allow the use of a pen instead of a mouse and keyboard.

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In 1987, Apple started to work on its tablet project.

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In 1989, The first commercially available tablet-type portable computer was the GRiDPad from GRiD Systems, released in September. Its operating system was based on MS-DOS.

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In 1993, The IBM releases the ThinkPad, IBM's first commercialized portable tablet computer product available to the consumer market, as the IBM ThinkPad 750P and 360P.

Apple released their first tablet in 1993, called the Apple Newton.

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In 1996, The Webbook Company announced the first Internet-based tablet, then referred to as a Web Surfboard, that would run Java and utilize a RISC processor. This product did not make it in stores.

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In 1999 Intel announced a StrongARM based touch screen tablet computer under the name WebPAD, the tablet was later re-branded as the "Intel Web Tablet".

In 2000, Microsoft released a tablet PC. Its main purpose was for business and note taking.

In 2007, Apple launches iPod touch, an MP3 player with WiFi. It took Apple two years to turn this concept into a tablet PC.

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The iPad was created in the year 2010. It was created by Apple, and it made a dramatic change to tablet history.

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All the information in this presentation is provided from: Wikipedia's page on Tablet History.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers
Pictures were provided by: common creative image search.
http://search.creativecommons.org