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From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>
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To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Apple Newton MessagePad
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On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Sean Kelly wrote:

> > Any comment about this toy or suggestions about similar ones ?
> 
> I'm partial to the PalmPilot, from US Robotics.  It lacks a lot of
> features compared to the latest Newtons or Windows CE (whatever the heck
> that means) palm computers, but it's cheap, does what I need, and fits
> in my shirt pocket, which no other palm computer can boast.  So far.

the PalmPilot and the windows CE are too small for what I'd like to to
(no, I'm not jocking! ;-) since I'd like to "write" on the MessagePad 
instead of writing on pieces of paper.

Also, as far as I know, the Newton is the only which does (or tries to do)
handwritten recognition.

Marco