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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?

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