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Courtesy of The Society for Information Display. Used with permission.
Figure 11.16. The outgoing message was selected using a special card.
From Schmandt and Arons, "Phone Slave: A Graphical Telecommunications
System." Reprinted with permission from the 1984 SID Interna­
tional Symposium Digestof TechnicalPapers,edited by JayMorreale.Vol.
25, New York: PalisadesInstitutefor Research Services, Inc. June, 1984.
pp. 146-149.
dialing a number with Xphone. The most recently dialed number can be redialed
by clicking the left mouse button on the window. A number can be selected with
the mouse from a different text window; when it is pasted into Xphone, the number
is dialed. Alternatively, the user can type a number into the tool using either
the number keys or numeric keypad on the computer keyboard. The keyboardentry
method is not as comfortable for dialing as the telephone keypad because
the keys are arranged in a different order, but once the number has been entered,
it can be dialed again much more quickly either via redial or the phone log
described shortly.
Holding down the right mouse button pops up the speed-dial menu (see Figure
11.18). This menu displays the names found in a simple text file. A submenu
reveals a log of recently dialed numbers (see Figure 11.19). Note that an entry in
the log may appear as either a name or a number depending on how it was dialed.
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