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From: Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Crazy dreams of HP48's with touchscreens
Message-ID: <38125@cup.portal.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 02:00:26 GMT
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Hi folks - 

   Ever heard that sometimes people are most creative when they're dreaming
or daydreaming? I had this crazy one last night about adding the touch-
screen plastic clear rectangle from the Sharp Wizard over top of an HP48
LCD display, and connecting the touchscreen overlay electronics to the
HP48 serial port.
   In past years, calculator "tinkerers" have dissected handheld devices,
such as HP toys andhings like the TI Speak and Spell back in 1978. I 
wonder if anyone had the guts to disassemble a Sharp Wizard to see if that
clear plastic touch-overlay and its electronics couldn't be lifted and
used as an independent device.... Over top of the HP48 LCD, it would open
up all kinds of options that perhaps the Corvallis folks are only day-
dreaming about at the moment. Imagine being able to simply touch one of
those six bottom-line soft key menu labels and getting the function to
execute. The sky's the limit. Do we have any takers? 

Jake Schwartz