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Wacom Tablet
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I've got the old Wacom Serial 12" x 12" with pressure sensitive pens and a digitizing puck (I hope I still have them, anyway!) that I used to use to digitize KBD Matrices w/the puck in one of my CAD packages. The pen I used to capture script and swash detailing for signmaking using Fontographer a/o Freehand.
Never did like the pen/tablet combo for use as a general pointing device, so I never even tried to develop a command overlay. I used a Nostromo SpeedPad for programmed command keys w/my left hand and a mouse in the other. I found that combo much more efficient for doing any repetitive tasks, like reformatting/resizing/cropping etc. in GraphicConverter.
It worked out pretty well w/Flight SIMs too! [
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I've got a small collection of 2-3 Wacoms and some other old but huge serial tablet. One of them will eventually end up in the tabletised Duo, and I expect another one will end up being used to control music software, with printed screenshot overlays.
By the way, from my research it seems the Wacom pens are compatible with the old touchscreen Thinkpad tablets
By the way, from my research it seems the Wacom pens are compatible with the old touchscreen Thinkpad tablets
Wow, I never knew anyone else who used a Nostromo! I bought one for WoW originally, but the command overlay also made me a lot more 'productive' at general Finder and web tasks. Unfortunately, 10.5 killed the nostromo.Never did like the pen/tablet combo for use as a general pointing device, so I never even tried to develop a command overlay. I used a Nostromo SpeedPad for programmed command keys w/my left hand and a mouse in the other. I found that combo much more efficient for doing any repetitive tasks, like reformatting/resizing/cropping etc. in GraphicConverter.
It worked out pretty well w/Flight SIMs too! [
Great minds < or was that small min . . . :Wow, I never knew anyone else who used a Nostromo! I bought one for WoW originally, but the command overlay also made me a lot more 'productive' at general Finder and web tasks. Unfortunately, 10.5 killed the nostromo.
> think alike! [] ]'>What's a 10.5? :lol:
I was looking for a while until I found one just for shipping ($ 8) . Seems like quite a few come without pens making them useless or people jack up shipping too much to bother. Kind of like when I wanted a kensington adb trackball and ended up getting a few locally (free) inside lots people were tossing.
If I get used to this model I might go looking for a large PC version with the digitizing mouse to work with an OLD version of DOS Autocad.
The only other ADB device I could use would be a hand scanner or webcam.
If I get used to this model I might go looking for a large PC version with the digitizing mouse to work with an OLD version of DOS Autocad.
The only other ADB device I could use would be a hand scanner or webcam.
I don't think either of those would work over ADB very well. The QuickCam barely worked over the serial port.
Oh, I had an n52 as well. Maybe it was Intel's fault!
Someone was writing custom drivers for the Nostromo at some point, I wonder if they ever got finished.
Otherwise, ControllerMate would likely handle it, if $30 is OK. I upgraded my USB Overdrive and it supports a lot more devices no so maybe that will work also.
Edit: I think I'm completely wrong, and Belkin eventually released a new version of their drivers since the last time I looked.
