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From: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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Subject: Handwriting technology - What good is it?
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Date: 21 Aug 90 14:47:26 GMT
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OK, here's something to talk about. The trade magazines, notably PC
WEEK and InfoWorld, have been running a number of stories on the
handwriting technology being developed by Go (and licensed by IBM) and
GRiD and the likes. The tone of the articles is that these handwriting
machines are going to be the next great thing and we will also use
them because they are so wonderful and so much better than keyboards.

My question is, what REAL uses do you all see for handwriting
technology? I see a number of limited uses in circumstances where a
keyboard is impractical or merely too big, but I know that I can type
far far faster than I can write with a pen or pencil. Not to mention
the fact that my typing is far more legible. As it stands, I can't see
why the magazines are crowing over this idea as much as they are,
since no one I know would prefer a pen over a keyboard for anything
but the shortest of notes.

Admittedly, handwriting technology would be neat and a great
breakthrough and all, but is it all that useful for computer USERS?

Please post - I'd like to see the comments on this feed on each other.

Many thanks ..... Adam


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Adam C. Engst                                pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu   
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