Tablet PCs: Is It Too Little, Too Early?
By Gregory A. Maciag
It was precisely 10 years ago that I wrote my first monthly “Technology Today” column for National Underwriter. The subject was called pen computing in those days, and I still have the NCR device I used for that column sitting on my bookshelf. Although the new devices look similar, the latest Tablet PCs are more powerful (as you would expect) and the software that manages the pen environment makes the platform more appealing than its 1993 cousin.
As I said 10 years ago, “A pen computer is a flat, clipboard-type device. Its screen resembles a piece of paper. The pen or stylus is used for pointing, gesturing and sometimes for writing.” And unlike the graffiti alphabet that we have become accustomed to on Palm devices, todays tablets can actually decipher cursive scribbles into coherent text. So, of course, the first thing I did was to test the (cursive) handwriting recognition.
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