Re: replacing the desktop metaphor

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From: Joe Zitt
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 14:01

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In article <3636@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
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>Those who live in New York may have already noticed that Citibank's new
>teller machines are touch screen based.  There are no hardware buttons
>at all (for customer use), just touch zones on the graphics display.
>
Citibank is doing wonderful things with their ATMs. Their Humanware division
has some really energetic, devoted people working on this. The only complaint
I've heard about the touch-screens is from a blind user who can't use them.

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From: jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
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Date: 18 Jan 89 14:01:27 GMT
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