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Newton Transcription Rate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Nanis)
Tue Mar 23 14:40:05 1993
From: nanis@ll.mit.edu (Jeff Nanis)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 14:39:01 -0500
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com
One of my biggest questions regarding Newton is how fast
it will be able to recognize handwriting. Is it going to digest
3-4 word/chunks (i.e. "Lunch Jane Tues") or will it support note-
taking at meetings and classes? As a non-speed typist, I want a
way to replace the old notepad/notebook without having a keyboard
(or the "barrier" of a flip-up screen). It would be extremely
useful to have all my notes stored electronically. Of course,
the other question is whether the initial memory will hold
several hours worth of notes before needing to be dumped to
a bigger machine.
It was hard to tell from the original MacWeek/World/User
articles just what Newton's capabilities in this area will be.
If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know.
Thanks,
Jeff Nanis
MIT Lincoln Lab
