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Probably the TabletPCs pioneered it. And those were Microsoft, circa 2000 / 2005

Well, the Compaq Concerto pioneered it in 1993. And Microsoft claims rightly to have been in the driver's seat with Windows for Pen [1] being one of the big features of the Compaq...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing

Hah I still have a Toshiba pen computing Windows machine somewhere from the early/mid-2000s.. They tried for a long time with those things..

I was keeping it to set up a kitchen computer.. I should just recycle it.

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