NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/palmtops/2436

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From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Allen)
Subject: Re: Microwriter Chording Patents
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:37:41 +0000
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In: <[e-mail]> Jay Maynard wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]>
>       [e-mail] writes:
> > But there is one big difference between everone else in the
> > market, HP95 included, which is that YOU CANNOT TYPE on ANY of the
> > others...

> This sure is news to me. I find myself doing more and more text
> pounding on my 95 as time goes by. The keyboard does require
> adaptation, but far less than a chord keyboard would ...

With respect, you are not qualified to make such a statement in
authoratitive sense unless you have actually tried microwriting.
Have you ?

As David Kennard said, lots of the portable machines have enough
power and flexibility to be used outside their specifications or
even optimum operating areas.  Just because you have managed to
reach an adequate typing speed (for you) on your 95, and like its
other features enough to make it worth the effort, doesn't necessarily
make it either the right or the best tool for the job.

We don't have a windowing multi-tasking operating system like the
Psion Series 3, or the PC compatibility that the 95 has, but we
don't claim to either.  All Microwriter have said is that our
chording keyboard layout and mnemonic chord sequences make learning
and maintaining rapid text-entry under difficult conditions quicker
and easier.

Jonathan