First Search Login-- Clarification about security

[Barbara Stewart]

> 
> But then what I *really* like is the system in Back To The
> Future, where you press your hand on the screen to login...
> 
> K. Schneider/opinions mine alone
> 
Hmmm - just saw a show last week about the alien landing and coverup at 
Roswell, N.M.  They showed a purported film taken of the space craft, and 
there was one of those hand press jobs, only for a six fingered hand. 
Looked really hokey, but then a systems developer showed a prototype of 
the control panel he was working on - bingo! the Back to the Future 
model. Wonder if this is one of those "which came first" questions?

Barb Stewart
UMASS, Amherst
stew at library.umass.edu