Did you ever get to play with a later generation Newton? I'm afraid I only ever saw one a couple times.. and was quite impressed, particularly with its pukka PCMCIA slot, so it was perfectly feasible to have, say, a modem/ethernet card installed. Wouldn't mind having one, actually, but even now, they're hardly dirt cheap.
That said, the handwriting recognition lives on in OS X as Inkwell, though nobody's quite sure why, given there's not much use made of it in the OS generally.
On the few occasions these days when I actually have to write something, I'm reminded how unaccustomed to the task my paws are now, after years of getting away with tapping away on little plastic squares. Not that I mind the results - I was taught a form of script writing early on, and it stuck well. (It did grate that a later school all but insisted I learn their scheme, even when they could see I could already write, and cursively)
Have you noticed your handwriting style evolve gently over the years?
On the budget front, something else you might consider useful: an external hard drive (handy for large volume backups, or transferring data easily from some office system elsewhere, without having to navigate the network perils), and/or a wireless data card, for being networked on the move (3GPRS, HSCPD, or suchlike).
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That said, the handwriting recognition lives on in OS X as Inkwell, though nobody's quite sure why, given there's not much use made of it in the OS generally.
On the few occasions these days when I actually have to write something, I'm reminded how unaccustomed to the task my paws are now, after years of getting away with tapping away on little plastic squares. Not that I mind the results - I was taught a form of script writing early on, and it stuck well. (It did grate that a later school all but insisted I learn their scheme, even when they could see I could already write, and cursively)
Have you noticed your handwriting style evolve gently over the years?
On the budget front, something else you might consider useful: an external hard drive (handy for large volume backups, or transferring data easily from some office system elsewhere, without having to navigate the network perils), and/or a wireless data card, for being networked on the move (3GPRS, HSCPD, or suchlike).