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- From: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias)
- Subject: Re: HP95LX or Sharp PC 3000 ? Available in the SF Bay area ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.152243.13330@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <azilker.712248551@unixg.ubc.ca> <LAUB.92Jul27174631@laub.Software.Mitel.COM> <1992Jul28.144241.7520@linus.mitre.org> <1992Jul28.173703.29519@src.honeywell.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:22:43 GMT
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- Re: the Newton
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- I think cursive script recognition is over-rated. Everything doesn't
- have to be ASCII to be useful. Books (for the most part) are not in
- ASCII. So long as you have enough memory to store B/W bitmaps of
- pen scratchings, I don't see a problem. As long as it can be read
- by a *person*, who cares if the computer knows what it is? Of course
- you can do neato word searches but how often is that done anyway?
- Such a device, would be much more useful than say a pocket notebook.
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- I think the strength of a Newton-like computer is in its ability to
- organize information. Recognition is nice, but I don't think it
- should be the main focus of such a machine.
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- Remember: computers are designed for *people* (or at least they
- should be).
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- Edgar
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