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From: bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF08 Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Flat Displays and Portable Computers
Message-ID: <191@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 11:40:31 EST
Article-I.D.: its63b.191
Posted: Fri Jan  9 11:40:31 1987
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Reply-To: bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
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In article <1191@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> edjames@ic.berkeley.edu (Ed James) writes:
>Anyone out there have any information on the current state of technology
>of flat displays?  I noticed there are some portable computers on the 
>market using LCD's in the range of 480x128 pixels (80 cols & 16 lines
>w/ a 6x8 font).  How close are we to a real sized display (~1024x1024)?
>
>I'd like to see a portable clipboard-sized computer with
>lots-o-memory.  Something that a student could type class notes on and
>download to a larger base machine later.  No disk/tape drives required,
>just a serial interface or maybe a modem, a pointing device and a 
>low profile keyboard.
>
>Think such a thing has marketing possibilities?		--ed
>						    edjames@ic.berkeley.edu
>						    ucbvax!edjames

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.

A handwriting analyser would be nice, to clean up my writing
and reduce storage needs, but a bit beyond current software.

All the advantages of a real bit of paper plus the computer
power of one of todays bit-mapped workstations with a mouse.
It gives a whole new meaning to writing a program.
	Bob.
	ERCC.