[57] in bcs-newton
Re: Newton Transcription Rate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Ratcliffe)
Tue Mar 23 15:17:01 1993
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 12:15:34 -0800
From: Mitch Ratcliffe <coyote@well.sf.ca.us>
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com, nanis@ll.mit.edu
Regarding Jeff Nanis' questions about handwriting recognition and storage:
Judging from the demonstrations, Newton appears to wait for a significant
pause in the user's writing before translating. That pause is when you lift
the pen from the screen to change lines or, when sketching, to move to a
different part of the drawing. I have to believe that the device can buffer
only a limited amount of untranslated ink (when in translation mode), and if
I were guessing, which I am, I'd say it was about three or four words.
How much can it store? That will depend upon the built-in RAM and how large
a flash RAM card you install in the PCMCIA slot. Remember, Newton may cost
less than a thousand bucks, but the add-ons can add up!
Mitch Ratcliffe
Editor at Large
MacWEEK
(author of the upcoming "Newton's Law" from Random House)
coyote@well.sf.ca.us
