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I bought my wife a touchscreen laptop

how long before its covered in children's fingerprints


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I often like to eat lunch in front of my PC, but when I'm having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a touch screen is just not going to work for me.

You use bread, right? How do you get sticky fingers from eating a PB&J? :lol:
 
You use bread, right? How do you get sticky fingers from eating a PB&J? :lol:


I put way too much peanut butter and jam on the sandwich so that when I jam the bread slices together, everything squeezes out. That's what I call finger licking good.:lol:
 
I put way too much peanut butter and jam on the sandwich so that when I jam the bread slices together, everything squeezes out. That's what I call finger licking good.:lol:

Tried it fried sometime, like a grilled cheese. Yummy! :mrgreen:
 
It is growing in leaps and bounds.

When you were using touch screens back in the 70's, were you also using voice commands and motion control? I use those things regularly right now on my phone and tablet and I expect those control methods to to improve with the desktop as well.


Nope, didn't need them. They were instrument controllers designed to run our test equipment to do measurements for us. Ever heard of the company called Fluke? They manufacture precision voltage standards, standard cells and attenuator calibrators, and of course they were innovative with the Fluke touchscreen instrument controllers. They were programmable using the BASIC language. Now, those were the days of ground-breaking technology.

Fluke Corporation: Fluke Electronics, Biomedical, Calibration and Networks
 
it was a gateway i bought on discount,the salesman has pressure and infared touchscreens.he said the infared were more expensive and reliable until the sensors got covered in dirt,the pressure sensitive one works with anything that touches it,but he said they wear out after a few years.

its in my closet somewhere,but i got it cheap because it was an old dual core model with 520 gig hd,3 gigs ram,1080i resolution 20 inch screen.

I can tell you now the gateway's are very popular in the art community because of their larger screens. They won't be antique value but it might sell well on ebay. Anything over 12.1 inch screen (most new Windows 8 pressure screens are 11" or even less)
 
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