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From: rlr@utastro.UUCP (Randy Ricklefs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Summary: I believe IBM used an IR-based detached keyboard
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <3494@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 13:36:46 GMT
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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> [references to other article deleted]
> Flat-screen monitor 2 inches thick, 3 feet square. Hang it on the wall. The
> CPU and magnetic/optical storage device (!) are stuck under a desk or something.
What about replacing the entire top of a desk with some type of flat display?
Then add a touch-screen mechanism to drag papers, forms, etc. across the desk
top to work on them.  (Then your electronic desktop could become as cluttered
as the physical one. :-) )

> 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.

I believe IBM used an IR-based detached keyboard on their much-maligned
PC jr.  I haven't seen anyone take up that gauntlet since then.
> 
> Ron
> 
  Randy
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