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Autzoo.1575 net.works utzoo!henry Sun Apr 18 20:11:16 1982 workstations as furniture Something I have very seldom seen discussed is the issue of building workstations as furniture. The original Alto was a desk; this approach does not seem to have been followed up by successors. It has advantages. For one thing, one can get the damn keyboard at the proper height! Also, by designing the workstation and the human work surfaces as a unit, one can ensure that there is enough horizontal surface near the display/keyboard for spreading papers -- something that many work environments are badly short on. One can certainly meet these needs with a separate piece of furniture, but it starts to be so heavily customized that it might as well be an integral part of the workstation. Or so I speculate.

Has anyone done work along these lines? I would be very interested to hear any ideas people have on pros and cons.

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