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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 12:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

I love how they call his engineer’s notepad a “tablet.”


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analog31today at 2:45 PM

It was definitely a term, though perhaps not as common as "pad." I only remember that the term was familiar, well before the "tablet" became a digital device.

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bell-cottoday at 1:58 PM

The form factor and usage go back quite a ways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet

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