Although later than AVA, people have also claimed a first for personal computers in particular : Todd Rundgren's Utopia Graphics System paint program for Apple II, which used a digitizing tablet for input.
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Instead of the mouse we used touch-screens ( awful ! ), light pens ( doubly awful ! ), joysticks and digitizing tablets ( which are actually really neat-much better than mice if you have enough desk space ).
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The significant difference Engelbart made was in reducing a $ 500 device to a $ 10 device that achieves 20 % of the functionality of the most common alternative-( which at the time was probably the digitizing tablet ).
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The term " on-line handwriting recognition " is used to distinguish recognition of handwriting using a real-time digitizing tablet for input, as contrasted to " off-line handwriting recognition ", which is optical character recognition of static handwritten symbols from paper.
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Many graphic artists rely on beige plastic digitizing tablets _ the grandparents of the Slimtop's screen _ for drawing and sketching, but even these people must look in one place ( the screen ) while drawing elsewhere ( the tablet ).
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Nowadays, the little digitizing tablets you find on laptop computers ( now we call them " touch-pads " ) are comparable in price to the mouse-but have lost most of their functional benefits because they are only used to ( poorly ) emulate a mouse.
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These programs are similar to traditional painting techniques in the sense that once an artist learns to make marks on one surface, such as a digitizing tablet or tabletop, that are visualized on another, the computer screen, the remaining adjustments are minor ( Goodman, 62 ).
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I used touch-screens ( invented in the 1940's ), trackballs ( invented in 1952 ) joysticks ( invented in 1944 ) and digitizing tablets ( invented in 1888 ! ) in college and in my first job around 1977-long before the mouse ( invented in 1963 ) appeared on the market in 1981.
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Users can easily capture digital data in a GIS . If the data is not digital, then users will need to employ various techniques to capture the data, such as digitizing maps by hand-tracing with a computer mouse, utilizing a digitizing tablet to collect feature coordinates, using electronic scanners, or uploading Global Positioning System ( GPS ) coordinates.
