[133] in bcs-newton
Is my Newton possessed or am I just stupid?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cesar Maiorino)
Wed Aug 4 04:12:07 1993
From: Cesar Maiorino <uunet!technet!cdm@world.std.com>
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com (bcs-newton@world.std.com)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 3:46:29 EDT
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I just bought my newton at the lechmere booth at macworld. By the way, if
you show your receipt to the people at Symphony Hall, you will get a FREE
connection kit (this is not the "Professional" version, but you can't beat
the price).
The problem is that it doesn't want to even try to recognize
my handwriting, i.e. when I write words on the notepad, they just remain
as digital ink. I have tried every combination of turning on and off the
text and shape recognizers and have entered info on my writing style into
the preferences. I have tryed to train it using the "Handwriting Practice"
tool, but that doesn't seem to work either - the word just disappears after
I write in in, no guesses appear underneath. To make it even more
confusing, every 20 or 30 tries or so, it does decide to try to recognize
my writing. I've played around with the demos on the floor at macworld,
but I haven't seem any of them act this way. The documentation is little
help - the two possible reason for the newton ignoring your text (from
the Handbook) are (1) the text recognizer is off or (b) the newton is
too busy faxing or beaming or something. Neither of these cases apply.
Any ideas? I'm glad Lechmere has a liberal return/exchange policy.
Cesar
cdm@technet.macom.com
