turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) (05/21/91)
----- I don't worry about CTS as much as I do the long-term effects of repetitive stress to my finger joints. The keys of the Apple keyboards come to sudden and complete stop right after the key is activated. The results is that after a few hours of working, my finger joints are sore. (Does anyone remember the smooth feel of the IBM Selectric typewriter?) In last month's Scientific American, there was short article on alternate keyboards. One, called AccuKey, was two keyboards for each hand, each having only four keys, so that one's fingers never move from its home key, nor begin a strike from midair above the key. Individual characters are formed by combinations. Naturally, no pointer was given to the source of such keyboards. Does anyone out there have one? Russell
pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (05/22/91)
I haven't heard of the AccuKey keyboard, but I do know of a company called Infogrip that is making a chord keyboard called the Bat which uses seven keys, four for the fingers and three for the thumb. They haven't started to ship to the mass market yet, but soon. I wrote an article about it for TidBITS a while back, #27 to be precise, and here's the phone number. Infogrip - 504-336-0033. It's worth calling - you'll talk to the president, Ward Bond, and he's a nice guy. -A-Adam Engst, TidBITS Editor In article <20080@cs.utexas.edu>, turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes: > ----- > I don't worry about CTS as much as I do the long-term effects > of repetitive stress to my finger joints. The keys of the > Apple keyboards come to sudden and complete stop right after > the key is activated. The results is that after a few hours > of working, my finger joints are sore. (Does anyone remember > the smooth feel of the IBM Selectric typewriter?) > > In last month's Scientific American, there was short article > on alternate keyboards. One, called AccuKey, was two keyboards > for each hand, each having only four keys, so that one's fingers > never move from its home key, nor begin a strike from midair > above the key. Individual characters are formed by combinations. > Naturally, no pointer was given to the source of such keyboards. > Does anyone out there have one? > > Russell -- Adam C. Engst (best) ace@tidbits.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (also) ace@tidbits.uucp (if all else fails) pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- Editor of TidBITS, the weekly electronic Macintosh news journal