Remember the Crosspad? These were cheap about 7 yrs ago.

[uberman]

The Crosspad was a clipboard sized tablet that sold for about $299.00 in the year 2000. Then they were a hot deal with pricematch and were like $50.00 or $100.00. The clipboard stored handwritten text in ASCI. I bought one and just found it in the back of a closet.

Did those things ever work? I'm wondering what to do with mine.

Old Crosspad Link

 

[TheMadScot]

The Crosspad was amazing! I lived and died by mine for meetings, etc. I mean, c'mon, the thing could store keywords for pages just by circling your handwriting. The only reason I don't still use mine is that, while NT compatible, they weren't 2000 compatible, much less XP or Vista. I miss it every time I take notes at a meeting, though.

 

[uberman]

Thank you. Now you've got me fired up. I think it would be handy. I've got some machines running Win98SE.

I would think it would even be cool just to store a few pages in its internal memory. Do you think it could be used effectively that way? Thanks.

 

[TheMadScot]

Unfortunately, no. The whole utility of the Crosspad was that you could upload the notes to a PC, do character recognition and keyword indexing, and then turn your handwritten notes into a Word document or what have you. Without the software to do so, it's just a really fancy notepad.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

CrossPad was a total bust. The character recognition was never updated from day one. Even if you just left the notes as a graphic, the sequential aspect of the note saving was problematic. From the minor issues of going back to dot an "i" to major issues of returning to label charts, the saving of notes to your PC was an abomination. IBM left all users hung out to dry and Cross pen company never once responded to any concerns of users on their support page. The product reached EOL three months after it was released. I too have one gathering dust in the closet.

 

[Pgwolfe]

Do you know where I could get the software? I have one of these but no software.

 

[fr]

I remember getting one for free AR or $50 when Office Depot did 155% pricematch in the 90's.

 

[Pgwolfe]

Great...but where can I get it today?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Great...but where can I get it today?

It's a bad piece of technology. It's not bad because it's old, it's bad because it never had any greater utility than a notepad and a flat bed scanner does. I had great hopes for it and was an early adopter, it failed in every way. Throw it out and write a nasty gram to IBM for foisting a poor, under researched, over hyped, piece of crap on the public.

 

[Pgwolfe]

Thanks for your opinion...but it does not resolve my issue.

Anyone have the software and/or direct me to a website where I can download it?

Thanks.