21 Feb
2000
21 Feb
'00
11:46 a.m.
Hi Frank,
....concluded that while the 150 wasn't that bad,
touch screens
were not all that they were cracked up to be....
....it resulted in a sort of fatigue that was called "gorilla
arm"....
Quite, I can believe it. I recall messing around with a light pen on my
Atari back around 1984, nice idea but my arm would soon start to ache if I
used it a lot....so I gave up on it (but then this is the man who hates
function keys above the keyboard as he can't operate them with the little
finger of his left hand (lazy or what!?)).
Besides, who wants a bunch of fingertip-sized smudges
on the
screen?
Heh, heh.
How did the touch screen operate then, infra red beams?
ISTR that I once saw a touch screen (in fact probably the only one I've ever
seen) which was some sort of transparent layer attached to the face of the
CRT, it looked rather like an anti-glare covering. It was nice as you
couldn't smudge it.... :-)
TTFN - Pete.
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