Windows Ink 1: Introduction to Ink and Pen Using a pen and computer has an interesting history that goes farther back than you’d think. In 1888, the first patent for a “electric stylus device for capturing handwriting” was issued to Elisha Gray for the Telautograph. In fact, pen input was being used 20 years before mouse and GUI input with systems like the Styalator tablet demonstrated by Tim Diamond in the 1950s and the RAND tablet in the 1960s, both could recognize free hand writing and turn it into computer recognizable characters and words. In 1992, Microsoft made its first major entrance into the pen input space with Windows for Pen Computing and also had the NCR tablet that ran Windows 3.1 with pen input as an option to interact with applications. New ways to use Windows Ink In the [ more... ]

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