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Note: This is an input device, akin to a mouse or a trackpad. It is not anything like an iPad or what you nowadays call a “tablet”. The surface you see is not
by teddyh 4y ago
Note: This is an input device, akin to a mouse or a trackpad. It is not anything like an iPad or what you nowadays call a “tablet”. The surface you see is not a display screen. This kind of device is also sometimes also known as a digitizer board.
- Sharlin 4y agoOr indeed graphics tablet, drawing tablet, or pen tablet. This usage of "tablet" predates the currently more popular one. Drawing tablets are commonly used by today’s digital artists too.
- Isamu 4y agoYeah, from that same period I remember the lab where I worked had a giant drafting table-sized digitizer. It could be angled and it weighed a ton. Those things died out, clearly a large format scanner is better.