* 1992
o GO Corporation shipped the PenPoint OS for general availability and IBM announced IBM 2125 pen computer (the first IBM model named "ThinkPad") in April.[47]
o Microsoft releases Windows for Pen Computing as a response to the PenPoint OS by GO Corporation.
* 1993
o Fujitsu releases the Poqet PC the first pen tablet to use an integrated wireless LAN[48]
o Apple Computer announces the Newton PDA, also known as the Apple MessagePad, which includes handwriting recognition with a stylus.
o The IBM releases the ThinkPad, IBM's first commercialized portable tablet computer product available to the consumer market, as the IBM ThinkPad 750P and 360P[49]
o AT&T introduced the EO Personal Communicator combining PenPoint with wireless communications.
o BellSouth released the IBM Simon Personal Communicator, an analog cellphone using a touch-screen and display. It did not include handwriting recognition, but did permit users to write messages and send them as faxes on the analog cellphone network, and included PDA and Email features.
* 1999
o The "QBE" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies wins Comdex Best of Show.[50]
* 2000
o PaceBlade develops the first device that meets the Microsoft's Tablet PC standard[51] and received the "Best Hardware" award at VAR Vision 2000
o The "QBE Vivo" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies ties for Comdex Best of Show.
* 2001
o Bill Gates of Microsoft demonstrates the first public prototype of a Tablet PC (defined by Microsoft as a pen-enabled computer conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of the "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition" operating system)[52] at Comdex.
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