{"id":18540,"date":"2017-08-03T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18540"},"modified":"2017-08-03T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:27:40","slug":"graphing-calculator-started-as-a-demo-for-penmac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/graphing-calculator-started-as-a-demo-for-penmac\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphing Calculator Started As a Demo for PenMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/xw8pgn\/apple-has-been-struggling-with-the-stylus-for-20-years\">Ernie Smith<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonAvitzur\/status\/881242834602385410\">Ron Avitzur<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/xw8pgn\/apple-has-been-struggling-with-the-stylus-for-20-years\"><p>Called the PenLite, the tablet device was designed to work with a stylus, but Apple never fully followed through. It became an obscure example of a Mac prototype that never saw the light of day. More people know of Apple&rsquo;s notorious Pippin video game console than the PenLite, despite the fact that it was clearly a more influential device on Apple&rsquo;s trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Back in January 2010, as the buzz around the iPad, which had yet to be announced, was just starting to reach a fever pitch, <a href=\"http:\/\/arno.org\/arnotify\/2010\/01\/penmac\/\">developer Arno Gourdol wrote a blog post<\/a> pondering whether Apple had finally gotten things right this time. He knew what the prototype looked like, its weaknesses, along with its potential.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> While information on the PenLite is somewhat hard to come by online, there is information floating around. Perhaps the most obscure and intriguing is a 2012 YouTube clip, nearly an hour in length, that features early Apple engineer Thomas Gilley going through the paces of the PenLite as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/06\/technology\/samsung-apple-supreme-court\/index.html\">the long-running patent case<\/a> involving Apple and Samsung.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernie Smith (via Ron Avitzur): Called the PenLite, the tablet device was designed to work with a stylus, but Apple never fully followed through. It became an obscure example of a Mac prototype that never saw the light of day. More people know of Apple&rsquo;s notorious Pippin video game console than the PenLite, despite the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1271,1420,295,145,30,1554],"class_list":["post-18540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-pencil","tag-graphing-calculator","tag-history","tag-ipad","tag-mac","tag-penlite"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18541,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18540\/revisions\/18541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}