Smart (or Intelligent) Portable Keyboard

1982 Trace Research Center publishes several articles in RESNA Proceeding proposing such keyboards.

1982 Zygo introduces the TetraScan keyboard.

1983 Zygo refines TetraScan into ScanWriter.

1983 Tandy’s Radio Shack introduces the Model 100.

1985 Trace Center introduces the Trine System, an Intelligent Keyboard and a basic laptop.

1985 Popular Computing, May issue, shows pictures and writes about three portable keyboards.

1988 Apple Computer explores the Intelligent Keyboard (the IKe project).

1989 Douglas Kelly files a patent for a smart keyboard: "Portable Editing Device".

1991 Apple prototypes an Intelligent Keyboard but then abandons the project.

1993 Two former Apple employees take the idea and introduce a smart keyboard.

1995 SmartPad, Inc. introduces the Lexbook packaged with a SEND feature.

1998 SmartPad, Inc. introduces the sporty, elegant, simple but the powerful CalcuScribe.

Teachers, students, parents, writers, journalists and people with special-needs praise the CalcuScribe.