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you could arguably backdate it if you want to fuzz things. Microsoft had a WinPad and Windows for Pen Computing product that started in 1992. There was also the
by kristopolous 3y ago
you could arguably backdate it if you want to fuzz things. Microsoft had a WinPad and Windows for Pen Computing product that started in 1992. There was also the hardware side, the Pulsar project. It wasn't Pegasus (CE), sure, but it was the same vying for a palmtop market that they eventually gave up on.
Here's a decent article that gets most things right
https://tedium.co/2021/02/10/windows-ce-history/ https://tedium.co/2021/02/10/windows-ce-history/
You can get winpad in some early chicago builds (windows 95) ... it's been extracted and put on archive.org https://archive.org/details/winpad275 https://archive.org/details/winpad275
There were also actual products such as the Samsung PenMaster that were released with Pen Windows ... here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJxWtTPyb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJxWtTPyb0
It's wild how early they were in the race, how long the stayed in, how much money they tossed at it and how they still failed so phenomenally