Boyd:
FPSI (Fujitsu Personal systems Inc.) closed their doors and everything
was folded into the Fujit$u computer line because they could not
justify the low production volume of the division versus high cost of
sales and (especially) support with the year 2000 (and onwards)
downturn in the overall electronics industry ( all of this was _prior_
to the Enron - Global Crossing - Worldcom - Arthur Anderson - et al -
and all their tricky and illegal accounting practices).
IMO this author sums up our eleven years with FPSI and their Stylistic
pen-based product line: "... My sense is that as a person's primary
computing device, the dedicated slate-based form factor isn't going to
fly unless there's a mission-critical application demanding it.
{{ snip }}
For the past nine months, ViewSonic has had a product on the market
that is very much like a Tablet PC. According to ViewSonic's Tom
Offut, the $1,795 Windows 2000-based Viewpad 1000 (which has lower-end
digitising technology and comes in a slate-based form factor) has met
the company's sales expectations, but has sold primarily into vertical
applications for healthcare, insurance, real estate, and automotive
service." see artilce at <
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t479-s2118420-p2,00.html >
IMO the speech recognition technology being developed for small form
factor telephony and their interrelated base stations and
interconnected voice/data networks will have a longer term impact than
pen-based/slate PCs.
Because of two worker compensation disabilities I have been
(intermittently) using, selling, and installing speech recognition
software control applications since the DOS-version of Dragon Dictate
through some of the latest products on the market. I'll address that
issue in another email.
John Oram
Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay wrote:
>
> John:
>
> I was trying to answer the Subject: question above. The article was
> implying that tablet-based systems would evolve - perhaps as a compromise
> between palm-tops and lap-tops. I gather a combination of LCD screen
> and light pen or membrane screen/tablet - all in a package about the size
> of a laptop screen.
>
> I, personally, have doubts about voice or handwritten entries compared to
> keyboards. Although they will eventually work the bugs out, I wonder
> at the cost in "bloatware". It should be OK as a notepad, given
> sufficient resolution, however.
>
> Thanks for the background. Knowing where we are coming from gives us a
> better idea where we are headed.
>
> Boyd Ramsay
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, John Oram wrote:
>
> > Boyd:
> >
> > We worked from 1990 to 2001 with Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc. and
> > their proprietary tablet hardware as well as their proprietary
> > versions of DOS & Windows which allowed input with a battery powered
> > pen onto the grid overlay. We did the beta testing for the "AHA!" pen
> > based word processor which Micro$oft bought out in 1993. We also still
> > have contacts with current and retired folks at Fujitsu. The pen
> > software extensions for DOS & Windows were written by Fujit$u which
> > has an OEM relationship with Micro$oft. This technology is over ten
> > years old and works well for specific applications, especially now
> > that the CPU isn't 396 based and the RAM on the motherboards is not
> > limited to 4 MB <BG>
> >
> > So what are your (specific) questions?
> >
> > John Oram
> >
> > Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay wrote:
> > >
> > > I just read some hype extolling the virtues? of Windows XP and tablets
> > > or touch screens. Comments?
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