如今,美国苹果公司生产的iPad在全球平板电脑市场中可谓独占鳌头,其实早在几十年前,它的先驱就诞生了,只是被不幸地埋没于科技时代落后的历史潮流中。最早的平板电脑概念可能要溯源到施乐帕洛阿尔托研究中心的研究员AlanKay在20世纪60年代末提出的Dynabook,这是一种可以用笔输入信息的新型电脑产品。然而由于种种原因,帕洛阿尔托研究中心并没 Nowadays, the iPad made by Apple Computer of the United States can be described as the champion of the global tablet PC market. In fact, its pioneer was born decades ago, only unfortunately being buried in the backward historical trend of the era of technology. The earliest tablet concept may be traced back to Dynabook, developed by Alan Kay, a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, in the late 1960s as a new computer product that could be used to input information with a pen. However, for various reasons, the Palo Alto research center did not