[75] in bcs-newton
Re: Stored Ink for Reporters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hunting)
Thu Mar 25 22:03:58 1993
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 21:57:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Sam Hunting <shunting@world.std.com>
To: Jim Rinaldo <bcs_jim@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bcs-newton@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <9303251545.AA15898@MIT.EDU>
> Reality is that a 5meg PCMCIA is reasonable. So, the ballpark number is
> 3.65 hours continuous uncompressed ink. Lets assume compression, and
> that probably hits 8 hours.
> So, could one get back to the office and let the network pool
> transcriber do the interpretation, off-loading the task?
3.65 hours of continuous writing sounds pretty unreasonable. But (a) the
writing would be by no means continuous, (b) assume a macro facility that
expands symbolic notation (or how about shorthand cards?), (c) assume I
upload it to the transcriber before I drive back to the office from
the baseball game where I got the ballpark figure, so it's ready when I get
back, or (d) to the transcribing at night, like network backup.
It doesn't sound insuperable to me. Maybe someone more technical than I
could elaborate.
