Y'know, I invented part of that some time ago, but only to find out that it 
had already been done -- is was pretty much putting a giant vertical bar on 
the front of the whiteboard that would move from left to right and scan the 
whole board.  But I was too late :-(

Once in a blue moon, if I'm too lazy to copy everything down from my 
whiteboard and need to save/erase it, I simply take a digital photo of it.  
Instant soft copy!

Cheers,
-Neil.


On Tuesday 12 July 2005 04:57 am, Paul James E. scribbled:
>  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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