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____/ Homer on Friday 26 Aug 2011 05:08 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee that Avid Fan spake thusly:
>> Well just shows you. I hope they kick this rubbish out of court.
>>
>> Apparently tablets PC are used in StarTrek the next generation too.
>>
>> http://www.techspot.com/news/45209-samsung-stanley-kubrick-invented-the-tablet-in-2001-a-space-odyssey.html
>
> It goes back further than that, 123 years in fact, when there was a
> "U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus device for
> capturing handwriting."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers#Before_1950
BUT... did it have an Apple logo on its back?
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