Aucbvax.2342
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utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works
Sat Jul 18 03:19:56 1981
>From ROBERTS@USC-ISI Sat Jul 18 03:12:11 1981
Interesting quote (attributed to an article in the "Siemens
Review") in this month's issue of "Telecommunications" magazine,
which has an article entitled "Automate the Business Office--How
and When":
"When new functions are added to an integrated work station, the
number of system components increases negligibly because existing
typewriter keyboards already possess keys for function selection,
and the function keypad will be expanded to allow the selection
of communications forms. The flat video display, designed to sit
on the desktop, is used for text preparation with correction and
editing function, the input and output of texts into memory, and
the input and output of texts to be transmitted. The flat screen
is the input/output medium for videotex, interactive videotex,
cable television, storing data from the user's own integrated
work station, and for departmental or central data-processing
systems. Finally, it also serves as the output medium for the
picturephone and video teleconferencing, for which an additional
camera, microphone and loudspeaker are incorporated into the work
station."
Now that's what I call a workstation! Comments, anyone?
Carlos Roberts
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