Appendix: Timeline

BC

• 14th century BC - evidence of wax tablets usage (see Uluburun shipwreck)

• 500 BC - art depicting writing with a wax tablet and stylus

• Wax tablets used by ancient Romans and Greeks

1800s

• 1860s - Pantelegraph

• 1888 - Teleautograph patented by Elisha Gray

1950s

• 1957 - Stylator, the first use of a stylus in an electronic computing device

• 1957 - Lightpen - first tech that allows a suser to draw directly on the screen

1960s

• 1963 - SketchPad software created by Ivan Sutherland

• 1964 - The RAND Tablet

1970s

• 1975 - BitPad by Summagraphics

• 1979 - Apple Graphics tablet released

1980s

• 1981 - Quantel Paintbox released

• 1982 - Adobe founded (December 1982)

• 1983 - KoalaPad released

• 1983 - Wacom founded (July 12 1983)

• 1983 - Wacom produces first drawing tablet with a battery-powered pen

• 1984 - Wacom launches WT-460M - the first tablet with stylus not attached by cord to the tablet [1a]

• 1987 - Wacom releases first drawing tablet with EMR technology

• 1987 - Wacom creates a Mac app called Pressure Paint - may be the first application to support pressure sensitivity available on a computer available to consumers

• 1989 - GRiDPad by GRiD Systems Corporation - first tablet computer

1990s

• 1990 - Adobe Photoshop released (Feb 19, 1990)

• 1991 - Painter (later Fractal Design Painter) published - one of the very earliest apps to support drawing tablets

• 1993 - Quantel Paintbox discontinued

• 1993 - Apple Newton released

• 1999 - Microsoft starts working on Tablet PC

2000s

• 2002 - First Tablet PCs released by OEMs running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

• 2005 - XP-Pen founded (April 8, 2005)

• 2006 - Microsoft Windows Vista released (Nov 30, 2006)

• 2009 - Microsoft Windows 7 released (July 22, 2009)

2010s

• 2010 - Apple iPad released (April 3, 2010)

• 2011 - Huion founded (Mar 12, 2011)

• 2011 - Procreate app released (Mar 16, 2011)

• 2012 - Around this time many key Wacom patents expire

• 2015 - Apple Pencil (1st gen) released (Nov 11, 2015)

• 2018 - Apple Pencil (2nd gen) released (Nov 7, 2018)

2020s

• 2023 - Apple Pencil (USB-C) released (Nov 1, 2023)

• 2023 - Wacom patents for erasers in pens expires (need to verify)

• 2023 - XP-Pen introduces X3 Pro pen - first in their line of pens to have chip on their PCB

• 2024 - Huion introduces PW600 and PW600 pens - first in their line of pens to have chip on their PCB

Links

• General

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_tablet

  • https://historyofthearttablet.wordpress.com/

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_tablet

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(computing)

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen

  • https://www.etymonline.com/word/stylus

  • https://www.etymonline.com/word/pen

• Adobe

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.

• CalComp

  • Tech Tangents - 90's CAD Digitizer and AutoCAD - CalComp DrawingBoard II 2022/10/19

• Microsoft

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

Quantel PaintBox

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox

• ACM - Computer Graphics in Court - The Adobe/Quantel Case

• https://www.redsharknews.com/the-quantel-name-is-legendary.-this-is-its-story-and-ultimately-what-happened-to-it

• 1990 Quantel Paintbox Demo

• Sketchpad

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad

• RAND Tablet

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Tablet

  • Aaron Rutten - The RAND Tablet - The Evolution of Drawing Tablets 2018/01/12

• Sketchpad

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad

• Wacom

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom

  • https://www.paintboxtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2009-08-Wacom_Art_of_Making_Marks_About_How_It_All_Started.pdf

• KoalaPad

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoalaPad

• Apple

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pencil

  • https://www.edibleapple.com/2009/11/23/the-first-apple-tablet-from-1979/

• ProCreate

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procreate_(software)

• Huion

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUION

• XP-Pen

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XP-PEN

• Misc

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelegraph

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telautograph