A Father Remembers ThinkPad

http://www.patrickweb.com/weblog/archives/2004_12.html

John Patrick, one of the fathers of the IBM Thinkpad reminisces over the its birth back in 1992. I never knew it began as a Tablet PC from Go, a company long gone. This is probably the only thing about tablet PCs that Scoble never gushed about.

Comments

[Evan]

Ah, the birth of the tablet, long forgotten.

I would also like to say I wish I had the chance to try out an Apple Newton. I heard it was awesome stuff.

Hopefully one of those original Thinkpads could end up in the Smithsonian or some other museum environment before its forgotten forever...

[Robert Scoble]

Oh, the idea of writing on a computer has been around a long time. But it wasn't until the Tablet PC that I could write on a mainstream OS. THAT was the innovation behind the Tablet PC.

By the way, remember Microsoft's WinPad? It was competing against Go back then too.