The earliest model of Jing is the Jupiter-X, a desktop model that did not incorporate a special recording device. The Jing brand was introduced in the nineties, initially for PC video recorders and 'digital cameras,' and later evolved to include Mac compatible systems. Eventually, the TechSmith Company released the much improved 'Jing Capture Pro' in the eighties, which introduced the first real-time, multitasking computer screen capture system.
At first, the Jing concept was not based on a camera, but instead on an electronic paper tape recorder. In the late eighties, the original 'jing' computer screen capture system became the TechSmith Jupiter. Though the Mac differs somewhat from the PARC system in many ways, including its use of hardware, it is widely considered the ancestor of the Mac, or at least the first Mac. Jobs based his idea on a Xerox PARC system he worked on as a college student in the early days. Retired technology enthusiast and computer geek Steve Jobs are often attributed with creating the Mac, the first 'intelligent' personal computer.
