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* SONY is selling shirts with the PIC 2000 on them that read: It emails, it
faxs IT GLOWS!!!! -The PIC-2000 has a "timex"-like back lit display!
* Panasonic has a booth downstairs!!! -It wasn't open, but this could/should
be the display for their new MC communicator (oh, I hope they've named it!)
* Magic Cap for Windows has a booth! -Again closed, but I'll keep you
informed!
* Magic Cap 1.5 for PICs has return reciepts, in the form of a stamp!
* Magic Cap 1.5 for PICs has the "if Dan doesn't get this message by 1pm,
fax it to him" rules!
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Sony was giving away a T-Shirt that if you looked at it very closely was
not the PIC-1000. Rumor has it that the PIC-2000 will be announed at an
early session on Monday Morning. This machine will have speaker phone
capabilities.(Yea, no more need for the micro/earphone) and two PCMCIA
slots, not to mention version 1.5 of Magic Cap. All of this is rumor, and
I'll confirm or deny it Monday night. I understand that the 14.4K modem
with the new PIC-2000 will be able to plug directly into a celluar phone
with no need of a protocol converter box like the Ora in between.
Panasonic will finally introduce their Magic Cap offering at this conference.
A software package that will allow your MC communicator to receive faxes
was talked about by several different people. It will need a big memory
requirement. More on this later.
Two developers from a handwriting recognition company that was recently
covered in Pen Computing were in town and attending the conference. I had a
long talk with one of them, and we discussed Grafitti, the Newton
Handwriting recognition from Paragraph, Mosaic, and the new product from
Lexicus. He readily admitted that they were working on a GM version, but
speculation on my part is that they are teamed up directly with Sony, to
have a voice recognition system which will work using the afore-mentioned
PIC-2000. As this is a long stretch of speculation from a rumor, let me
just leave you with the thought of a Magic Cap communicator that will begin
dialing when you say "E.T., phone home!" to it.
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Terry Harpold "What is the use of a book," thought Alice,
"without pictures or conversations?"
tharpold@netdepot.com
terry_harpold@attpls.net -- Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_