From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 14:04:14 EDT
I think I have seen such a keyboard at NASA around 1976, but maybe it was
only a concept.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of James H. Cloos Jr.
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:44 PM
> To: Thomas M. Widmann
> Cc: unicode
> Subject: SPAM: Re: Vurtual Keyboard!
>
>
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas M Widmann
> <thomas@widmann.uklinux.net> writes:
>
> Thomas> Now, if anybody would manifacture
> Thomas> keyboards with tiny LCD displays on each key, that
> problem would
> Thomas> disappear, but I have never seen such a thing. :-(
>
> I remember from discussions on either comp.sys.handhelds or
> comp.sys.hp48 that HP used to have a patent on such
> keyboards. (A patent that must have expired by now.)
>
> So it certainly has been thought about before, going back
> probably to the '70s or even earlier.
>
> -JimC
>
>
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