Asri-unix.1313
net.works
utzoo!decvax!cca!FISCHER@RUTGERS@sri-unix
Sat Apr 24 18:33:46 1982
Workstations as desks
From: Ron Fischer <FISCHER RUTGERS AT>
An interesting observation was made along these lines by Gregory Yob
in Creative Computing.  He suggested that an entire desk surface might
be a graphics display.

This sounds like a very neat idea.  Combine a four by three foot
graphic display mounted in a desktop, tilted at a comfortable angle,
with a small keyboard, and pen-like pointing device with some window
support software.  That seems like part of a nice environment.  You
could shuffle papers (or icons if it gets designed by Xerox) just like
normal.  If the display surface could be made sensitive enough, and
you didn't have to do much typing, a keyboard could probably just be
drawn on the surface when needed.

Since terminal displays are getting larger it might become more
logical to build them into desktops.

Anybody know if we could make one of these nowadays?  Are there limits
to the size of a plasma display?

(ron)
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