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In the 1984-85 timeframe I was working as an application developer in IBM’s Bethesda facility. I was working on a PC version of DisplayWrite, IBM’s word processor that originated on mainframes. Our PCs had just gotten upgraded and we had under our desks the blisteringly fast 6MHz x286 processor PCs, hot off the presses.
We had a visit from some guy from Watson Research Center. In his briefcase was a computer unlike any other in existence at the time. It was a tablet with a monochrome backlit LCD display complete with onscreen keyboard. The guy wanted us to load DisplayWrite on it.
By today’s standards the tablet was huge. I don’t recall the exact dimensions, but the screen was about 15 inches diagonal, and the whole device was at least 2 inches thick. It required a wired stylus for mouse action, and it likely had a battery like Sony VGN-CR battery , Sony VGP-BPS12 battery , Sony VGP-BPL12 battery , Sony VGP-BPS7 battery , Sony VGP-BPS7 battery , Sony VGP-BPS13 battery , Sony VGP-BPS13S battery , Sony VGP-BPS14 battery , Sony VGP-BPS15 battery , Sony VGP-BPS18 battery life measured in tens of minutes instead of hours, but it was a tablet. It looked surprisingly close to a finished product too, if IBM wanted to it could have released it. For all I know it probably did to some very exclusive customers with very deep pockets.
So, while Steve Jobs and company was playing around with Apple II IBM had already created the precursor to the iPad.
Back then IBM’s iconic motto was one word, “Think.” That’s exactly what they did. They solved problems few people even knew existed. They innovated. They created. They thought.
As may glean from the tone of this article, I enjoyed working for IBM. The company has changed a lot over the years, they don’t command the attention they once did, but one thing I believe still holds true for them. They still believe in that one word that keeps them relevant even as other tech companies struggle, think.
So, what else would they call their new iPad app that examines the history and processes of innovation?