[comp.periphs] Need alternate keyboard...

mdth@ur-tut.UUCP (Mike Thome) (09/26/87)

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Many years ago, I saw a new product announcement in a computer magazine
(could it really have been creative computing?) for a new sort of keyboard
- rather than being a flat array of keys, it was made of two half-spheres
with buttons arranged so that they'd be directly under the fingers had the
ability to produce the full ascii character set, and probably used as rs232
interface.  For some reason Dvorak comes to mind as being associated with
it, but it is certainly NOT the well-known Dvorak keyboard setup - it's
possible that the arrangement of keys on the hemispheres is dvorak-related.

A friend of mine has a physical disability that prevents handwriting or
using a standard keyboard shape for any length of time - this alternate
shape could be a solution to this problem.  Any info would be helpful.
	-Mike Thome
	mdth@tut.cc.rochester.edu
	mthome@bbn.com