[net.works] Request for IBM chord keyboard

STEINER@RUTGERS.ARPA (01/07/85)

From: Kirk Kelley  <KIRK.TYM@OFFICE-2.ARPA>

High-powered design and composition work on a computer seem to
require rapid alternating key and mouse input so that one hand is
always on the mouse and one always on the keys.

I've been happy using a simple five piano-key chordboard for the last
decade, but there does not seem to be a market for it as a
peripheral.

So maybe it is time to throw away both it and my querty and move up
to the 14 key chordboard like the kind developed at IBM Cambridge
Scientific Center.  I hear their chord keyboard is comparable in
speed to a two handed keyboard.

Anyone know where I can beg borrow or buy one?

   -- kirk

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