Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:36606 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:1804 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!bright From: bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: ST Pad specs Message-ID: <1991Mar27.163030.4500@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 27 Mar 91 16:30:30 GMT References: <27E4E601.1238@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1991Mar21.080126.22262@ecst.csuchico.edu> <2881@atari.UUCP> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 22 In article <2881@atari.UUCP> trh@atari.UUCP (T R Hall) writes: > You may feel skeptical, but as the designer of the two machines >announced, I can tell you that "TOS ... with handwritting recognition" is >FACT, not conjecture. The HCR code will be in the ROMs (and was, in the Demo >at CeBIT), and tied into the operating system and desktop such that a gesture >in the Menu Bar area will bring up a window (as invisibly to existing >applications as possible) into which Hand-written characters are drawn. As you >write, the characters are converted to ASCII; when you are satisfied, the >characters are sent (via the Keyboard input stream) to the application. This >way, _*existing*_ applications will have HCR capabilitites. This sounds pretty nifty, but will the machine also allow a normal keyboard to be plugged in? The HCR interface would be very handy for portable use, but I can type a lot faster than I can write, and it would be nice to have the option available. BBB -- Bob Bright Dept. of Philosophy University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Man R3T 2N2 (204) 474-9105