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From: etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: summagraphics bit pad support
Message-ID: <1991May21.231333.12956@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 23:13:33 GMT
Sender: etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Well, we gave up trying to get an Altek digitizer
to work with an Apollo DN4500, so we hauled a
Summagraphics digitizer tablet out of closet.

This is the one sold by what used to be "Instant
Apollo". 

So my question is, what does the tablet server,
/sys/dm/sbp1, do? Is it meant for using the tablet
instead of a mouse with the display manager? 
Is it necessary if the application
includes a driver? And is it compatible--in any
sense of the word--with other brands of digitizers, so
that some other driver may work?

In short, can we do anything useful with this thing?


-- 
Eric Bushnell
Univ of Washington Civil Engineering
etb@u.washington.edu