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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Almost all of my 35+ OS have been laptop free.
Michael (Hi Michael!) I agree with you that there are several advantages with
handwritten reports. Anyone can do that in any situation. But I do it the
opposite way. I give the participates the prepared papers in double letter
size (A3) and fineliners. This makes it more easy to read the reports on the
wall during the OS. Afterwards they can diminish the reports to A4 (letter
size), to make them easier to handle if they prefer to copy them. Otherwise they
can type them to go into their own intranet or whatever IT they are using. I
have done this with very large groups (200-300 people) and it works
fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Once I had 200 people at a computerspecialized
company and of course I suggested that they would use computers for the reports.
They said that they absolutely would, but as time passed it was obvious that no
one had the time or energy to manage this. So in the end they had to hire ten
computers and a person managing them. This turned out to be the most expensive
and least productive part of the OS. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ingrid Olausson, Stockholm,
Sweden</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>