Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:36217 comp.sys.ibm.pc:32978 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!aucs!peter From: peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Need Digital Pen/Hand Digitizer Recommendation Message-ID: <1989Aug10.122049.18533@aucs.uucp> Date: 10 Aug 89 12:20:49 GMT Organization: Acadia University - School of Computer Science Lines: 24 A department here wants to get a digital pen/pad to use with a drawing package for drawing things like class crests. We haven't decided whether to get a PC system or a Mac system. Whatever is decided, we'd like some recommendations on what would be a good digital pen to get. For the PC, we will probably get Corel Draw, so the Digital Pen has to be supported by Microsoft Windows. A cordless pen would be preferable, although not essential. How about the Kurta IS/One? We're looking at under $850 or so for both the Mac and PC recommendations. Since these drawing packages usually have some sort of bitmap tracing feature, we thought a simple hand held digitizer might be useful for scanning the class crests. Nothing too fancy, but something that will do the job. Around $500 is what we're looking at here (based on prices I've seen for hand-held digitizers). There seems to be quite a few advertized these days, all of them looking pretty much the same. Is there some that should be avoided? Thanks in advance. -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU