hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com (04/09/91)
Dan, In article <DANJ1.91Mar28132419@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: > Hello. Has anybody got ideas for using mainframe UNIX or computers in > general for a disabled person with use of only the right hand? Have you come across the "Microwriter"? It's a "keyboard" that has 5 keys, one for each finger of one hand (the right one, I think, but that's OK.) You make characters by chording the keys, i.e. pressing two or three at once. I don't know much more about it, I'm afraid. I do know they make a pocket machine that has both a tiny QWERTY and a microwriter keyboard. I got sent some bumph for it recently, but filed it in the bin, as usual. Hugh. ------------------------------------------------------ "The thought of dentists gave him the same sick horror as the thought of Socialism". H.G. Wells. (1866-1946). British writer. (Bealby, Pt.VIII, Ch.1)
bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (04/17/91)
In article <26495@adm.brl.mil> hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com writes: >Dan, >In article <DANJ1.91Mar28132419@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM >writes: >> Hello. Has anybody got ideas for using mainframe UNIX or computers in >> general for a disabled person with use of only the right hand? >Have you come across the "Microwriter"? It's a "keyboard" that has 5 keys, one >for each finger of one hand (the right one, I think, but that's OK.) >You make characters by chording the keys, i.e. pressing two or three at once. >I don't know much more about it, I'm afraid. It was invented by the same guy who invented the mouse, and mouse-buttons, and pulldown/popup menus in general. I really should remember this, but shoot me I've gone up on his name and whether he was from Stanford or Berkeley... I think he died recently, also... He also did some rudimentary speech-commanded OS stuff. All of this in '64-'68...at SAIL, I now remember. --Blair "Technology is a slow and laborious marketing strategy..."