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From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Optimal keyboards
Summary: micey micey mice
Message-ID: <1395@greek.csd.mot.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 20:52:01 GMT
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john@nmt.edu writes:
> lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com writes:
> | Where can I get a chord keyboard?  
> | This obviously superior system
> 
> Obviously superior?  For people who have only one hand,
> perhaps (or for people who are doing something else with the
> other hand).  
  Yes.  That's the point!  I'm talking about mice.

> Some Dvorak keyboard typists can do
> consistently over 120 words per minute; I usually do over
> 70, 

"Obviously superior" if you're using a mouse.  Douglas Englebart's 
prototype workstation had a chord keyboard in one hand and the mouse 
in the other.  If you can type 70 words a minute while working your 
word processor with a mouse, like MacWrite, you have a future in magic.

The mouse was this wooden monster with X & Y wheels.
You could tip the mouse up on either wheel and draw straight lines!