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[Antony Barry]

On 31/05/2007, at 2:21 PM, Pilcher, Fred wrote:

> - How do I type this e-mail on the coffee table, let alone write a  
> structured document? Maybe a virtual keyboard appears, but how's  
> that for ergonomics?

Back around when the first touch screens came out (late 1980s?) a guy  
who worked for me, Tony Ashcroft, said he had an idea for a computer  
which would open like a book with display on one page and the other  
would display a screen which you could draw on or would display a  
keyboard which you could type on. You could of course choose the font  
and language. We were having a problem automating Thai, Chinese,  
Devangari and Vietnamese text at the time.

Tony

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