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From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: a plea to Apple -- something for the offhand
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Date: 24 Jul 90 12:13:00 GMT
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In article <139441@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> landman@hanami.Eng.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391) writes:
>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.

	Get a hold of the video proceedings of the ACM Conference on the
History of Personal Workstations. It was held in '86 at PARC and the
tapes can be got from the ACM. They have some footage of Engelbart using
the mouse with one hand and his 'chord' keyboard in the other. It's
quite spectacular. One of the later speakers describes this as
'Dispensing Lightning with Both Hands'. The rest of the tape is pretty
good too.

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

	Hah just another Xerox ripoff :-)

		Tony


-- 
Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk

		If a man among you has no sin upon his hand
	    Let him throw a stone at me for playing in the band.