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Line 49: ===Hardware=== Released in September 1984, the Metaphor workstation had infrared wireless input devices: keyboard, mouse, numeric pad, and five-function keypad. This was the first commercial appearance of a cordless input devices like mouse, etc. The input devices docked in the desktop workstation where they were recharged. Objects on the desktop and open applications had a uniform command set that could be controlled by the keypad which had Copy, Move, Delete, Options, and Size. The workstations were [[Motorola 68000]]-based, networked with [[Ethernet]], and contained 1 MB RAM. The industrial design of the workstation was done by [[Mike Nuttall]] of Matrix Product Design. It won a gold medal from the IDSA. The workstation itself was engineered by James Yurchenco at David Kelley Design. Both Matrix and David Kelley Design were precursors of [[IDEO]]. Line 103: [[Category:Defunct computer systems companies]] [[Category:Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area]] [[Category:Software companies based in Mountain View, California]][[Category:Xerox spin-offs]]