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Originally Posted by Blossom
 I had no idea. I wonder if the netbook my doctor carries around cost that much.  It is a touch screen what the clinic people use. Last time I was there my doc's netbook screen suddenly fell back and it almost crashed to the floor. My heart stopped and I jumped to grabbed it but she caught it first.
She yelled at me about being too jumpy and told me to relax. I told her "I am not jumpy. I just almost saw $600 dollars crash to the floor!" Some people just don't understand the affinity I have with computers.  |
If I had to guess I would say it cost 3 times that $600 = $1,800.
Yes the doctors (and others) use the touch screens. One reason is to avoid the mouse or the keyboard pad or pointer.
You wish to put some data or a comment in a box, and you touch it with your finger and the cursor goes there, and then you start typing.
We have used touch screen in industry, in the military, in cockpits, instrument panels for 20 years or more. There were different kinds, but they only became really prolific between 1995 and 2000. You could move a machine around, a robot arm, and select settings or put the data in. Old school. The really new uses are for the public, say the last 5 or 6 years.