On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:27:05 -0500, "Neil Gould"
wrote:

I consider "actual/real work" that for which one is being
compensated. Such work has been done on tablets for decades and on
phones at least since the Blackberry.

I didn't know tablets had existed for decades.

Yes, they have. I even had some of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...blet_computers

You can learn something interesting every day, if you wish. ;-)

quote
The first patent for a system that recognized handwritten characters
by analyzing the handwriting motion was granted in 1915. The first
publicly demonstrated system using a tablet and handwriting text
recognition instead of a keyboard for working with a modern digital
computer dates to 1956.
end quote

I wonder how much "actual/real work" was done on those?

I'll bet that the tablets' developers were getting paid, so probably more
than some folks do today! 8-D

Meanwhile, quite a bit has happened since 1956. My first tablet experiences
were in the mid '70s, and I guarantee that you could't afford one if you
weren't getting paid to use it.

I was obliged to use a touch screen computer at work in the early 90s
(for controlling video recorders) using Windows 3.1. There was a
tablet version available, if you think a beige mains powered box about
10cm thick is worthy of the name, but we had to use standard CRTs with
vertical screens which got covered with muck, as did our fingers. This
was my first experience with touch screens, and was when I learned to
hate them.

Rod.