Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!sdd.hp.com!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!intelhf!ichips!iwarp.intel.com!inews!pima!bhoughto From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: One handed UNIX Message-ID: <3861@inews.intel.com> Date: 17 Apr 91 03:41:23 GMT References: <26495@adm.brl.mil> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ Lines: 25 In article <26495@adm.brl.mil> hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com writes: >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. It was invented by the same guy who invented the mouse, and mouse-buttons, and pulldown/popup menus in general. I really should remember this, but shoot me I've gone up on his name and whether he was from Stanford or Berkeley... I think he died recently, also... He also did some rudimentary speech-commanded OS stuff. All of this in '64-'68...at SAIL, I now remember. --Blair "Technology is a slow and laborious marketing strategy..."