Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!inmet!ishmael!inmet!callen
From: callen@inmet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was R
Message-ID: <207400002@inmet>
Date: 6 Nov 88 02:16:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet!callen    Nov  5 21:16:00 1988


>>Side note:  the IBM PC Jr. (remember that?) had a cordless keyboard that
>>worked, I think, on some infra-red technology.  Worked real well, too -- I
>>could type from across the room on the one they had at my high school.
>>Couldn't see the screen, of course . . .
> (stuff deleted)
>But what I always wondered was,
>how do you populate a terminal rom with PCjr's?  Can you code your
>keybard like a garage door opener?
> (more stuff deleted)
>Infrared keyboard is nice, but typing isn't.  The NeXT appears to have
>the guts to do speech input to text.  Now that will be a revolutionary
>development indeed.  So give me a headset (that of course is cordless
>by infrared, phone technology or whatever).

How do you populate a terminal room with VOICE INPUT machines?!? YUCK!

-- Jerry "I'll keep the keyboard and mouse, thank you" Callen
   ...{uunet,harvard}!inmet!callen
   callen@inmet.inmet.com