Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!maccs!riehm From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Any impressions of the new GrIDPad? Message-ID: <25B08A6E.12422@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 14 Jan 90 14:19:26 GMT References: <15545@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 10 In article <15545@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes: > >Has anyone out there played with the new GrIDPad - the one with >a stylus that writes directly onto the LCD display (no keyboard, >just handwriting recognition). This seems like the wave of the future Are you serious in saying that this is the wave of the future? If you are a hunt and peck artist at the keyboard I can understand this I suppose, but for the rest of us??? I think it's just a gimmick, at least for most users. Carl Riehm.