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Palm: I'm ready to wallow now. History of handwriting recognition The history of Palm itself most certainly doesn't extend as far back as the 19th century, as most of you will know. The company was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, joined by Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan, and those of you with a proper sense of history will probably know that, with a bit of effort, you could stretch Palm's history a bit further back to the late 1980s. At that time, Hawkins worked at GRiD, where he created the GRiDPad, one of the first tablet computers and the Palm Pilot's direct predecessor. To understand Palm's history, you have to understand Hawkins' history. To understand Hawkins' history, you have to look at the technology that was at the very core of the Palm Pilot: handwriting recognition. This technology most certainly wasn't new when Hawkins started working on it, and as early as 1888, scientists and inventors were already working on the subject - in one way or another.

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