From: Andrew Beals
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:27:46 -0800, "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury_at_loop.com> wrote:
Hm. Bets it has an RC circuit in it that picks up the EMF from the screen and
> I think the CrossPad lets you use a regular pen if I'm not mistaken.
The crosspad takes a big clunky heavy pen which has a little radio transmitter
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: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:56:56 EST
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 22:34:45 EST
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:17:53 -0800, "Andrew Beals" <bandy_at_cinnamon.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Are the pens the same ones used on the 730T/TE and 360P? Some kind of
> >non-powered electro-magnetic thingy. I haven't torn one apart to see what the
> >circuit is, as I only have a couple and a regular PDA stylus won't cut it.
>
> There's something inside, I think some kind of RF device, but not battery
> powered. I literally ripped one apart - the circuit board ripped apart when I opened
> it (but the button was sticky on it).
feeds back.
and a battery in it. You can write with a regular pen on the paper if you
won't mind the pad picking it up.
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