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From: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Subject: Type faster than write? (was Re: ST Pad specs)
Message-ID: <27F1690C.15033@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
References: <1991Mar21.080126.22262@ecst.csuchico.edu> <2881@atari.UUCP> <1991Mar27.163030.4500@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 03:54:51 GMT

In article <1991Mar27.163030.4500@ccu.umanitoba.ca> bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright) writes:
>[...]
>	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.
>[...]

	I agree that you can probably type a paragraph of prose faster
than you can write it out by hand.  But what about a mathematical proof or
the solution to a physics problem with all its special symbols?  I also 
move the cursor up and down a lot when I type, and that takes quite a bit
of time, relatively speaking.  I think in some circumstances, I would be 
more productive if I could use a pen instead of a keyboard.   I think I
can type a paragraph faster than I can write it, but I think I could 
write a page faster than I could type it.

-- 
John Schmitt
johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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