LGR Oddware: The $400 CrossPad Tablet from 1998

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A look back at the odd late 90s CrossPad from A.T. Cross and IBM! An electronic notepad letting you draw on normal paper, automatically digitizing drawings and text, and storing them in memory for transfer to a PC over serial! A remarkable yet ill-fated oddity indeed.

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● Archive of the IBM Ink Manager CD-ROM:
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00:00 An Oddware Introduction
00:45 CrossPad history
05:04 Critical reception and lawsuit
08:12 Unboxing the pad, feature overview
14:42 Software setup with Windows 95
17:27 Basic operation and digitization
21:09 Manipulating INK drawings, text
26:30 Summary (Cross Examination? ha)

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