Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:29940 comp.emacs:10441 comp.editors:2849 comp.terminals:2740 sci.med:23964 comp.cog-eng:1902 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!gw.scri.fsu.edu!pepke From: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.emacs,comp.editors,comp.terminals,sci.med,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: One handed UNIX, Emacs for disabled person? Message-ID: <2643@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 31 Mar 91 21:27:56 GMT References: Sender: news@sun13.scri.fsu.edu Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Florida State University, but I don't speak for them Lines: 29 In article Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: > Hello. Has anybody got ideas for using mainframe UNIX or computers in > general for a disabled person with use of only the right hand? The Apple Macintosh has sticky control key ability built into the OS. One of the terminal packages that I use, VersaTerm Pro, allows you to use the mouse for moving around in vi or EMACS. This requires a modifier key to be held, but with the stickiness, this shouldn't be much of a problem. I remember from the early days of microcomputers, when real programmers used toggle switches and keyboards were outrageously expensive, there was a one-handed ASCII keyboard. It was a sphere with four finger buttons and eight thumb buttons. One was supposed to play a chord with the fingers, giving eight bits, and then press one of the thumb buttons, giving three more. It was attractive to a lot of people because the small number of moving parts made it cheap. You might be able to find one used. It would take a lot of training to use, and it might be very hard to get any amount of speed, but it's worth investigating. I have no connection with any of these manufacturers. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.