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From: daf@genrad.com (David A. Fagan)
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: 27 Dec 88 19:17:09 GMT
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Keyboards with fiber-optically lit keytops are something that I've been
thinking about for a while.

In article <17939@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
>In article <454@blake.acs.washington.edu> phaedra@blake.acs.washington.edu (J. Anderson) writes:
>
>>	3) A keyboard with LCD or similar technology key caps, so that
>>not only What-I-See-Is-What-I-Get but What-Button-I-Push-Is-What-I-Get
>
>       It's been done, by a number of vendors.  It's not all that useful,
>as it turns out, because the user has to keep looking at the keypad to
>see what the keys mean now. 

Does this mean that, while typing, I need to look at every key to see which
letter it produces? No, but having the the letters clearly labeled on the keys
sure makes them easier to learn!!

>					John Nagle

Dave Fagan
genrad!otter!daf