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Article #1180Wireless keyboard, wall screen, etc.
From: John B. Nagle
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 17:54
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 17:54
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1. Wireless keyboards have been tried. Remember the PC Jr? Not
only was the keyboard wireless, it was washable. Didn't sell.
Keeping multiple machines in the same room from interfering
required a more elaborate communications approach than the PC Jr.
used; this limited applications of the machine.
2. Large, flat plasma panels have been tried. IBM used to offer one
as a mainframe peripheral, and it's even been seen on a PC at
Comdex ('84). About 2 feet square, and red. The interface had
some problems that made it very painful to program, but the device
worked quite well. Plasma panels about 6' x 8' by 4" thick are
available for about $100,000, but these are militarized units.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!glacier!jbn From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac Subject: Wireless keyboard, wall screen, etc. Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments Message-ID: <17924@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 22 Dec 88 17:54:07 GMT References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <82702@sun.uucp> <8939@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 13