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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (912)	1/26/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) of 2615

Funny I was thinking of doing that too. I was going to do it on XT's with Hercules monitors. Then I decided to do it with EGA systems as they did line detail better than VGA but then I opted for PC Juniors with snazzy 28 MHZ VGA monitors. I have to lose the chiclet keyboards though. For mice I was thinking of atari joystick switches with floor model collectives from Bell 204's as the handle. Perhaps the steering column from a 150 cessna would do. Instead of a return, escape, home, end and delete key I would use two foot rocker switches with 3 positions each. A wawa pedal would connect to the browser's back button. You might be right about this new fangled display technology though. What do they work on? Ethyl? I am using an older monitor and I have to keep film away from it or it gets black and if I want to warm up my lunch I just put in front of the screen. I don't have to turn on the light to brush my teeth at night, just smile into the mirror and fluoresce. I am naming my workstation company CJS-WT Enterprise for Computer Junk and Scrap For Wasting Time. I thought we would call our flagship model "Real Workstation." Since people work so much slower than a computer except when it gives them obvious trouble which is often I thought I would top the basic MPU speed at 300 Kilohertz. After all the Tandy Model III cruised at about that fast and would run Basic as fast (faster) as the PC. The main thrust would be to get the colour on the screen to match documents exactly. I would sell it with a colour matching kit like car painters use. You would twiddle a few dials until the colour came out just like the ink on your colour laser or bubblejet. Maybe I would have to sell an inkjet with a tad better ink and maybe 1200 DPI. Once the colour printer output like a Linotronics on bennies, I expect the vanity book publishing set would beat a path to my door. I figure you could buy the old wordstar code for about 50 bucks and spruce it up so it ran on Linux to make a dandy publisher. XML might do it. EC<:-}

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