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From: garye@hpdsla.HP.COM (Gary Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Finger print scanners
Message-ID: <890003@hpdsla.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 20:57:35 GMT
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Organization: HP - Pacific Technology Park
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I'm sure I saw once, and haven't seen again, a blurb in a PC magazine about a
lock for your PC that was a fingerprint scanner.  You'd stick your thumb on it,
and if your thumb matched a print in memory (I guess), it would unlock your PC
for you to use.  Haven't been able to find is since 8^(.

Gary Ericson - Hewlett-Packard, Workstation Technology Division
               phone: (408)746-5098  mailstop: 101N  email: gary@hpdsla9.hp.com