One of the first breakthroughs in keyboard technology was the invention of the teletype machine. Also referred to as the teleprinter, the technology has been around since the mid-1800s … See more

By 1964, MIT, Bell Laboratories, and General Electric had collaborated to create a time-sharing, multi-user computer system called Multics. The system encouraged the developme… See more

Early computer keyboards were based either on teletype machines or keypunches but there was a problem: having so many electro-mechanical steps necessary to transmit da… See more

As PDAs began to add web and email access, word processing, spreadsheets, personal schedules, and other desktop applications, pen input was introduced. The first pen inp… See more