The writing is on the screen. (pen-based computer input; includes related article on mobile computer telecommunications)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 25, 1992 | Copyright information

Pocket sized computers that accept input from a light pen rather than a mouse or a keyboard are the next development in computers. In addition, mobile telephone services are adapting to include computer communication.

THE computer is entering its third incarnation. The first number-crunchers were behemoths locked in air-conditioned rooms. In the 1980s they shrunk and crept on to the desktop, as personal computers. Now they are becoming even smaller and yet more widespread. Com...

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