All,

 When I worked at TI, we had a couple of whiteboards that were on stands
 you could move from room to room.  Anyway, these boards had some buttons
 on a control panel.  One of the buttons moved the writing surface left or
 right.   The writing surface was a loop that moved horizontally.  Using 
 this capability, you could write a formula for instance, and when you got
 to the right edge, press the button and the whole writing surface would
 move to the left, and clear writing space would move in from the right.
 After you got all your writing done, you could press another button, and 
 it would be printed out on the on board printer.  Or you could press
 another button, and it would save it to a disk.  Optionally, you could
 distribute it to a LAN, but TI didn't get that option.  Or at least not
 while I was employed there.

 It was a very nice piece of equipment for out engineering meetings.
 Everything that was covered in the meeting was printed out, copied and
 distributed to all members of the team.  Everybody was literally on the
 same page at the same time.

                                               Regards,

                                                 Jim

> On Tuesday 12 July 2005 12:41 pm, Bob Blick scribbled:
>> > What kind of software design aids do you use for your project?
>>
>> "cocktail napkin". Also useful for schematic capture :)
> 
> Funny, I do that to.  And I still have one of my best ideas
> (mechanical) on  the back of an (unused) airline barf bag.  Napkins are
> great for schematics,  but for software flowcharts/algorithms, I prefer
> a whiteboard.  Then just  redraw on paper to save it.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Neil.
> 
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