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Re: Fortezza dying on the vine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Wed Jul 30 16:19:02 1997
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:59:53 -0700
From: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
To: cryptography@c2.net
RL Bob Morgan wrote:
> Someone from Microsoft told me that they had tried to convince the
> makers
> of the of the MS natural keyboard to include a smart card reader, but
> the
> (claimed) $2 of extra hardware cost was declared to be too much and
> they
> lost the argument.
>
> - RL "Bob" Morgan
> Stanford
Interesting. Microsoft actually announced that the next version of
the Natural Keyboard would have a reader about a year ago. I had
been wondering what was taking so long. I'm surprised that the
cost bothered them, since this has got to be one of the highest
margin keyboards around.
--Jeff
