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Aucbvax.2288 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Wed Jul 15 04:36:31 1981 Touchpanels vs Tablets >From SAUNDERS@USC-ISIB Wed Jul 15 04:35:03 1981 Joe, There is one real distinction between BitPad et al. and sensitive-surface touchpanels, and that is the need or absence of a gadget (pen, e.g.) that one must find and pick up (or take a hand position on) before pointing/drawing. Is it your experience that this is not important? I get *terribly* annoyed by the pen on our Perq (which came with a Summagraphics tablet, not the transparent touchpanel -- I don't know why). I think that a pen on a cord is much worse than a mouse; what I don't know is whether finding a mouse every time is worth having those buttons there rather than (say) near the left hand. Have you experimented with fully-worked-out setups that use each of the competing technologies to its own best advantage? I really would like to hear some information on this.

Steve

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