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Draw Tablet advice?

    27-Feb-94 09:02:35
Fm: Leslie T. Bartiromo 72347,776
To: James R. Ollick 73613,762
I have the TriMedia Drawing Pad (as opposed to the Drawing Board II.) It was brought to my attention via insert in DPaint 4 (4.5, 4.6, 4.61, whatever.) I don't have an A4000 so I don't have first hand knowledge that it works but I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't. TriMedia Incorporated 60 E. Hintz Road Wheeling, Il. 60090 (708)520-0730 The hardware and software are top notch. I had a little problem finding hearing aid batteries for the pen because they recommend using mercury batteries instead of the most common "zinc air" batteries. I don't know why they want you to use mercs but my guess (and this is ONLY a guess) is that zinc air batteries may "leak" if they go dead where mercury batteries probably won't. When you are using a hearing aid and the batteries go dead you replace them right away but if you don't pick up your radio wave pen for a couple months you may have a mess. (Again, this is a guess that assumes a lot.) BTW, using this tablet, driver, and DPaint 4.5 (and higher) allows for pressure sensitive effects. You can get a more opaque and thinker line with more pressure. Fun stuff.