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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:35:40 EDT
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
- From: David Millman <dsm@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Campus Information Kiosks
- Comments: To: CWIS-L@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu
- In-Reply-To: Bill Johnson's message of Tue,
- 8 Sep 1992 15:18:13 EDT
- <9209081926.AA29663@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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- ours is a mac (LC), with a touch screen, in a rather severely locked
- box, running a schnazzy gopher client (hypercard w/mactcp). notable
- extensions to a standard mac gopher client: corporate-kiosk-style
- backgrounds, drop-shadows, etc; thumb-sized buttons; "search menu
- title space" search (homegrown perl script searches against an
- "ungopher"-generated db of local menu names); some help buttons; and
- "Multi Media", viz, button-pushing makes noise and some 'quicktime'
- video clips to get people to look at the thing when it's idle.
-
- relatively inexpensive (except for the physical security) and the
- tourists seem to just love it.
-
- and we're looking forward to the u-of-minn team's "gopher+" extensions
- which will let us take advantage of proportional fonts in titles, rtf
- (or postscript, whatever) documents, net-delivered pictures, etc.
-
- individuals who care can ask me & i'll point you to our developers.
-
- /david
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- ps: usage has gone way up since the "marbelized" background and drop
- shadows appeared. this kind of stuff appears to be no joke. --d
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