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Getac was established on 5 October 1989 as a joint venture with GE Aerospace. [9] [10]In 2009, Getac acquired Waffer Technology Corp., which resulted in Getac becoming the world's third largest aluminum-magnesium alloy producer and the leading supplier of seat belt spindles and spools.
Pen computing refers to any computer user-interface using a pen or stylus and tablet, over input devices such as a keyboard or a mouse.. Historically, pen computing (defined as a computer system employing a user-interface using a pointing device plus handwriting recognition as the primary means for interactive user input) predates the use of a mouse and graphical display by at least two ...
The earliest computer-related usage for a stylus was in 1643 with Pascal's calculator. [4] The device had rotary dials that rotated in accordance with the selected numbers; with gears, drums, and clever engineering, it was capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (using 9's constant). A stylus was used to turn the dials.
A graphic tablet. A graphics tablet (also known as a digitizer, digital graphic tablet, pen tablet, drawing tablet, external drawing pad or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand draw or paint images, animations and graphics, with a special pen-like stylus, similar to the way a person draws pictures with a pencil and paper by hand.
The Getac Z710 is a rugged tablet computer.It was introduced by Getac on September 4, 2012, when it was announced as the world's first rugged 7-inch Android tablet, [1] and later as the world’s first rugged Android tablet to offer the option for the ATEX Zone II/22 certification for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, which is essential for many oil and gas uses as well as ...
With the release of the Surface Pro 4, [12] Microsoft introduced an updated version of the Surface Pen. While using the same technology as the Surface Pro 3 pen, it has only one (non-customizable) button on the side rather than two, and brings back the top-mounted eraser (retaining the button functionality) and also allows customizing the button (called the "magic button") to perform different ...
The slate and stylus are tools used by blind people to write text that they can read without assistance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Invented by Charles Barbier as the tool for writing letters that could be read by touch, [ 3 ] the slate and stylus allow for a quick, easy, convenient and constant method of making embossed printing for Braille character encoding .
The HP 110 (aka HP Portable and HP 45710A) is an MS-DOS-compatible laptop released in 1984 by Hewlett-Packard. It runs off batteries and uses a Harris 80C86 running at 5.33 MHz with 272 KB of RAM. It has an 80 character by 16 line monochrome ( 480 × 128 pixel ) liquid crystal display , runs MS-DOS 2.11 in ROM , and has the application programs ...