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From: tag@symbas.UUCP (Arne Gisvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Chords (was Re: a plea to Apple -- something for the offhand
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Date: 31 Jul 90 06:59:43 GMT
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>There was something like this in BYTE magazine many MANY years ago.  It
>was a hemispherical shape with one button for each finger and (I think)
>three buttons for the thumb.  You press the proper combination of finger
>buttons, then one of the thumb buttons to actually transmit the
>character from the device.
>Hmmm... this only gives you 48 characters...  I must be remembering
>something wrong.  Anyone out there remember this issue?  It was the
>cover article - I do remember seeing the device on the cover.  I might
>be mistaken about the magazine - it might have been Interface Age (how
>many of you remember _that_ magazine?).


Microwriter keyboard - Microwriter Systems Plc. Mitcham, Surrey,
England - I've got one.

Regards
Tor-Arne
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