Re: IR-link keyboard -- it's been done!

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From: Brad Brown
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1988 20:33

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In article <eX91V#3rLMNU=eric@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>
>There was this machine called the `PC Junior', made by a little itty bitty
>company name of IBM. It *had* a keyboard that worked almost exactly as you
>describe.
>
>It was a flop. Too bad. The IR keyboard was indeed a nifty idea, it was the
>rest of the machine that sucked rocks...

Whether the IR keyboard really worked on the PC-Jr is debatable -- it *was*
a cool idea but required a line-of-sight from the keyboard to the computer.
This was *not* nice.  If you could put the IR reciever on the NeXT monitor
it would be OK, but then you'd still have to worry about paper getting in the 
way or the desk covering the LED when you type on your lap.  Give me a nice
old wire, just make it long and flexible!

					(-:  Brad Brown  :-)
					bradb@ai.toronto.edu

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From: bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown)
Subject: Re: IR-link keyboard -- it's been done!
Message-ID: <88Dec26.153341est.10798@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 88 15:33:40 EST

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