On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 04:08 PM, Frank Gruendel wrote:
>
>>> Oh...that's not that bad!
>
>> Dude your high.
>
>>> All that happened is that
>>> the touchscreen part is damages.
>
>> What are you smoking and where did you get it?
>
>>> The Display seems to be OK.
>
>> Look again please.
>
> Marty,
>
> Ed is absolutely right. To beat you to your questions,
> the last time I smoked was in 1973, and I got it out of
> an old mattress. Unlikely, though, that it still has an effect...
>
> You might not be aware of how a Newton display is built:
>
> Touch sensitive foil
> Glass pane
> LCD Display
> Backlight
> Flexible display electronics board.
>
> Quite obviously Andreas' picture shows that only the glass
> pane below the touch sensitive foil is broken, not the
> LCD display itself.
>
>
<snip>
So there are actually two panes of glass in the display? One for the
touch screen and one for the LCD?
If so, my apologies Ed, I was apparently jumping to an incorrect
conclusion. Although it still seems strange to me to have two glass
pieces...
Once again, shows what i know,
Marty
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