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I love how they call his engineer’s notepad a “tablet.”
by ChrisMarshallNY 11mo ago
I love how they call his engineer’s notepad a “tablet.”
- bell-cot 11mo agoThe form factor and usage go back quite a ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo agoYeah. I used those things (the paper ones) for most of my career. I had stacks of them. “Tablet” is a valid appellation, but we always called them “pads.”
- analog31 11mo agoIt was definitely a term, though perhaps not as common as "pad." I only remember that the term was familiar, well before the "tablet" became a digital device.
- bananaflag 11mo agoThe original "Tablet PC" announced by Microsoft in 2000-1 was meant to mean "PC in the form of a tablet".
- MangoToupe 11mo agoInteresting. I always thought about it in the sense of a "clay tablet" that could only "display" on a single surface, as opposed to a notepad that allowed you to freely flip through pages.