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Article #1187Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
From: Tim Harris
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 18:29
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 18:29
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There actually has been one system I have seen with an infra-red keyboard, it is a Fujitsu machine available only in Japan called the FM-77A/V. The A/V stands for Audio/Video as the machine has both excellant graphics and full stereo sound. It has the computer in a very small main unit which contains two 3" floppys and an infra-red detector. The keyboard is compeletely wireless and uses infra-red. The mouse, however, is still wired to the machine. There is a wireless tracking device scheduled for use on the new Philips CD-I player systems that consists of a 10 key keypad, a thumb-ball tracking device and several trigger buttons for the tracking device. This is suppossed to be infra-red. I've seen the pictures but not the device itself. Tim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!tim From: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments Message-ID: <880@mcrware.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 88 18:29:04 GMT References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <82702@sun.uucp> <8939@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris) Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa Lines: 14