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I had a CrossPad twenty years ago. And it feels like this device has improved extremely little from it. The CrossPad was recording what you wrote in a notepad p
by chx 9y ago
I had a CrossPad twenty years ago. And it feels like this device has improved extremely little from it. The CrossPad was recording what you wrote in a notepad placed on top of it, it had a little radio in the pen, and later you could download what you did, if I remember, in a vector format so it was better than a scanner. The ReMarkable on the other hand, records what you are writing on a screen and later you can download what you did because it seems the device is not capable of doing a thing with it.
In twenty years, we got... nowhere. Now you can wipe the writing surface with a button press instead of turning a page. Twenty. years.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoWell, at least its not recording your every stroke, to sell that as "mind-reading" info to advertisers. How, should we call it when software regresses. Its not bloat- its worser.
- MrMorden 9y agoUpdegrade?
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoWill call it that from now on.. this is awesome
- majjam 9y agoI was hoping the ReMarkable would be cheaper than the CrossPad, but this (https://web.archive.org/web/19991201033034/http://cfonews.com/atxa/d092898z.txt.html https://web.archive.org/web/19991201033034/http://cfonews.co...) indicates it was $399 at launch which equates to $572 in today's money (http://stats.areppim.com/calc/calc_usdlrxdeflator.php http://stats.areppim.com/calc/calc_usdlrxdeflator.php) which is still cheaper than the ReMarkable's $600 launch price.
- chx 9y agoJust a small note: that's the CrossPad XP but the original was also $399. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/2731.wss https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/2731.wss