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From: tcline@hpislx.HP.COM (Ted Cline)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Chord keyboards (was Re: Optimal keyboards)
Message-ID: <9130001@hpislx.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 90 21:56:05 GMT
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> / hpislx:comp.misc / landauer@morocco.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer) /  7:01 pm  Sep 12, 1990 /
> 
> I think that, in spite of my previous (several months ago) posting
> (which, alas, I seem to have lost), few of the readers of & posters to
> comp.misc are thinking of the IBM chord keyboard described in IEEE
> Computer, March 1978.
> 
>     2- Could someone find and make me a copy of that entire article?
>        (It's IEEE Computer Magazine, March 1978.  The article is by
>        Nathaniel Rochester, Frank Bequaert, & Elmer Sharp.)
> 
> -- 
> Doug Landauer - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Languages - landauer@eng.sun.com
>     Matt Groening on C++:  "Our language is one great salad."
> ----------

"March 1978" is wrong.

I found the ariticle "The Chord Keyboard", Nathaniel Rochester et al,
in IEEE Computer Magazine, December 1978, p57-63.  

I have a copy of the article (STRANGE keyboard!, I like the MicroWriter
(sp?) better).

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