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From: zellich@ST-LOUIS-EMH2.ARMY.MIL (Rich Zellich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: 5-key chord keyboard (and mouse) for PC
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Date: 29 Jun 89 17:05:33 GMT
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For a while Tymshare (now McDonnell Douglas whatever...) *did* make what they
called a "mouse house" - a black box which plugged into the PC's serial port,
and into which plugged both a mouse and keyset.

Unfortunately, none of their customers (except us, and this was long after our
use of NLS/Augment, anyway) ever quite got into using a keyset so they dropped
the product.  For a while over 1 1/2 years ago, I was corresponding with
Raylene Pak of that group, trying to buy one of the leftover mouse-house
packages and copies of their Mini-BASE and AugTerm PC packages (Mini-BASE
was a slightly stripped-down PC version of the old NLS/Augment BASE editor).
For some reason, Ms. Pak stopped answering my messages, and has never returned
any phone calls - I'm still hoping to get at least the MiniBASE product, and
am still trying to get in touch with someone out there who can sell it to me.