I think I have seen such a keyboard at NASA around 1976, but maybe it was only a concept.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > >
