Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!news From: hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: One handed UNIX Message-ID: <26495@adm.brl.mil> Date: 9 Apr 91 10:03:59 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 20 Dan, 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? Have you come across the "Microwriter"? It's a "keyboard" that has 5 keys, one for each finger of one hand (the right one, I think, but that's OK.) You make characters by chording the keys, i.e. pressing two or three at once. I don't know much more about it, I'm afraid. I do know they make a pocket machine that has both a tiny QWERTY and a microwriter keyboard. I got sent some bumph for it recently, but filed it in the bin, as usual. Hugh. ------------------------------------------------------ "The thought of dentists gave him the same sick horror as the thought of Socialism". H.G. Wells. (1866-1946). British writer. (Bealby, Pt.VIII, Ch.1)