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From: lum@osupyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Flat Displays and Portable Computers
Message-ID: <148@osupyr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Jan-87 12:19:32 EST
Article-I.D.: osupyr.148
Posted: Sat Jan 17 12:19:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 23:38:34 EST
References: <1191@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <191@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <1223@ucbcad.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: lum@osu-eddie.UUCP (Lum Johnson)
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In article <1223@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> edjames@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Ed James) writes:
>In article <191@its63b.ed.ac.uk> bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) writes:
>>Make it with a touch sensitive screen, throw away the keyboard and
>>the pointer (mouse), and use a stick for making notes on the screen.
>
>[D]id you ever use a ball point pen on a solid surface?  Paper 'gives', but
>screen surfaces don't.  The writing surface would have to be slightly soft,
>but this would probably shorten it's useful life greatly.

I think that a replacable flexible stylus (like a fiber tip pen) would be
a better idea than a soft surface.  You could get the "give" feedback,
but use a more durable and probably less expensive hard surface.

However, I also type much faster and easier than I write.

Lum Johnson  lum@ohio-state.arpa  ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum