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In article <8939@ut-emx.uucp>, osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:
> A monitor as described is a ways down the road, for sure, but I don't know
> why a wireless keyboard would be far-fetched. It'd only have to send a
> hundred or so infrared (or other) pulses: one for each ASCII character.

Where you been, boy? Hidin' in a hole?

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 (IBM did things like deliberately
crippling the ROMs so you couldn't run the serial ports at >2400bps, and
that chiclet-style keyboard...aargh!).

Of course, it would have worked a whole lot better in multiple-machine
environments if there'd been frequency selectors on the keyboards and machines
that you could dial to different values to prevent crosstalk...

On the postive side, I understand that at some of these sites `keyboard wars'
got to be a real popular computer game...:-)
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