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   From: crossx14@yahoo.com.ar   
      
   The device that I will sketch vaguely doesn't exist, but if I can imagine   
   it anyone can.   
   I imagined a similar apparatus to a Converter or Decoder that it could be   
   placed over a television set, with an infrared sensor what would receive a   
   lightly more complicated signal that that of a remote control of TV, since   
   it would come from a wireless standard infrared keyboard for PC, with   
   incorporate touchpad to replace the mouse.   
   Besides the traditional input of video signal by coaxial cable and the   
   output to the TV, this apparatus would have a connection with a PC that   
   could be by means of an UTP cable with connectors RJ-45 for a standard   
   Ethernet 100BaseT LAN network, or by means of the same coaxial cable.   
   In this way, this device, when connecting the main entrance device (the   
   wireless keyboard with touchpad), to the PC and the television, it would   
   transform to this last one into the Monitor (the main exit device) of a   
   Terminal (without CPU, memory, hard disk neither CD reader), and to the PC   
   into a Server of the LAN that would contribute the whole necessary   
   hardware and software.   
   This device should not be much more expensive that the sum of its main   
   components: a network card, a video card, a power source, a converter   
   DAC/ADC, etc.   
   Due to the notable difference of prices, it is much more common to find   
   more than a TV in the homes that to find more than a PC, for what I   
   believe that the potential market is quite big.   
   And it could be a solution to a quite common problem that one has when   
   somebody wants to use the PC and he/she has to wait their turn because it   
   is being used by another member of the family.   
   The main difficulty that I considered it is that I think that a great   
   political obstacle should exist so that an apparatus like this doesn't   
   exist after more than a decade of presence of the technology that could   
   have made it possible: I thought that their existence would not have been   
   allowed because it would prevent the Big Brother to know exactly who is   
   doing what with the computer. I think that to hinder this surveillance is   
   vital because without privacy there is not freedom, and without freedom   
   the life is not worthwhile.   
      
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