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>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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