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From: ssimmons@unix.cie.rpi.edu (Stephen Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: a plea to Apple -- something for the offhand (TBM)
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Date: 25 Jul 90 09:17:16 GMT
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In article <1426@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> jgsmith@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (James G. Smith) writes:
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>I had forgotten about the chord keyboard.  Heck, I'd be happy with a 5 button
>keyboard, forget the chord business (except for the power users who will have
>the time and inclination to learn the chords).
>
Yeah.  A five button chord keyboard would be nice; you could easily
have all the letters of the alphabet with the off hand, and the mouse
with the on hand.  A ten key chord keyboard would be nice too, because
it would (apparently) allow rapid entry of data.  The 95WPM (or so)
barrier of QWERTY keyboards is frustating to me.  I'm not sure I'd buy
five key one, but a ten key one would be for me, worth paying for.

--Stephen Simmons