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- Path: sparky!uunet!gca!boyle
- From: boyle@gca.com (David Boyle)
- Subject: Re: Touch Screens
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.192211.5922@gca.com>
- Keywords: touchscreen
- Organization: GCA Corporation
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:22:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.232216.6435@desire.wright.edu>, dbrackman@desire.wright.edu writes:
- >I was recently working on a project where a MicroTouch touch screen was
- >attached to the front of a PC's monitor. Unfortunately, I don't have
- >MicroTouch's phone number or address at hand.
- >
- >I can tell you, however, that the touch screen connected to the computer
- >via a serial port, or via a card from MicroTouch that emulates a serial
- >port. It comes with a mouse-emulator driver, a driver for using it with
- >Microsoft Windows, and documentation for writing your own low-level driver.
- >Also, I remember that the touch screens are relatively durable, as we
- >were exposing them to an industrial environment.
-
- Here is my current database of touchscreen hardware and software vendors.
- It doesn't pretend to be complete, since I stopped looking after we found
- what we needed. We use Elographics touchscreens with Trident Systems
- software for Un*x/X platforms (Sun and DECstation 5000).
-
- Hope this helps.
-
-
- MicroTouch Systems, Inc. Capacitive screens
- 55 Jonspin Road Macs and PC/Windows
- Wilmington, MA 01887
- (508) 694-9900
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- Interaction Systems, Inc.
- 86 Coolidge Ave.
- Watertown, MA 02172
- (617) 923-6001
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- Trident Systems, Inc.
- 3554 Chain Bridge Rd, Suite 2000 Software for Un*x/X, I think
- Fairfax, VA 22030 they also supply hardware
- (703) 273-1012
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- Elographics, Inc. SAW and Resistive screens
- 105 Randolph Rd. PC drivers
- Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- (615) 482-4100
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- David Boyle ...uunet!gca!boyle or boyle@gca.com
- GCA, a unit of General Signal (508) 837-3869
- Andover, MA 01810
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