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From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Sony Palmtop w/char recognition - Ultimate Laptop?
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Date: 22 Mar 90 18:13:20 GMT
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I just read about Sony's recent announcement in EETimes of the Palmtop
computer w/fuzzy logic to do character recognition using a "light pen".
It also claims to have a variety of "personal info mgt" software built
in (word processor, graphics, scheduler, calculator, etc) and sells
for $1400. Is this the Ultimate Laptop some of us here have been
lusting for?

For now, it only handles Kanji characters, but if it can recognize 3500
Kanji ideographs, it seems a simple matter to get it to manage the <100
ASCII chars most of us use.

Anyone know anything more about this device?

rich

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