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Comment by bell-cot

2 days ago

The form factor and usage go back quite a ways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet

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bell-cot

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ChrisMarshallNY  2 days ago

Yeah.

I used those things (the paper ones) for most of my career. I had stacks of them.

“Tablet” is a valid appellation, but we always called them “pads.”

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