Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!micah.cs.wisc.edu!haber From: haber@micah.cs.wisc.edu (Eben Merriam Haber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: HeadMasters - Mac Classic Keywords: none Message-ID: <1990Dec31.151703.20854@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 31 Dec 90 15:17:03 GMT References: Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 29 In article domingo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alberto Domingo) writes: > > I'd like to get any information about a product called Head Masters or >about Personics Corporation (the phone number below is incorrect, I think). > >This is for a friend of mine who had a very bad accident and is now >tetraplegic (completely immobilised except the head). He's got a >Mac Classic and this product, the HeadMasters, which aparently allows Personics no longer markets the HeadMaster. It is instead maintained by the Prenke-Romich company, somewhere in Ohio (does anyone out there know? I had their address and lost it). It IS possible to get a headmaster to work with an SE - an adaptor is required to convert the Mac + style mouse signals to ADB signals. This adaptor is available from the above company for about $130. I own the precursor to the Headmaster, the VCS which is (in my opinion) THE best mouse substitute ever. Instead of using the mouse or a track ball, you wear a headset and two extra buttons are added to the bottom of the keyboard. To perform any mouse operation, one button (just below the space bar) activates the headset, and you just look where you ant the mouse to go. The other button is for clicking the mouse. Unfortuanately, you can no longer buy the VCS as a mouse substitute, but it is really great to be able to perform mouse operations with my hands never leaving the keyboard... Eben Haber