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From: landman@hanami.Eng.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391)
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Subject: Re: a plea to Apple -- something for the offhand
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Date: 24 Jul 90 07:12:58 GMT
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In article <2787@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> gdavis@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>I think the inventor of the mouse, Doug Engelbart, did have an input device
>for the other hand. As I recall it was a simple five-fingered keyboard.

Sounds like the "chord" keyboard sometimes used at Xerox PARC.

>Apparently he could do
>amazing things with it, but everyone else found it difficult or impossible
>to learn how to use.

I don't know about that.  It was great for playing MazeWar.

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