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From: jims@momenta.com (Jim Straus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Keyboards (Re: HP-95LX Review)
Keywords: QWERTY , Sholes keyboard s**ks ; Dvorak , American Simplified rule
Message-ID: <1991May14.164425.4632@momenta.com>
Date: 14 May 91 16:44:25 GMT
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anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:

>As far as I know, [the AgendA] is the only commercial product to ever use a full
>chording keyboard.  Whoops, that's not true.  The US Post Office uses
>chord keyboards for high speed sorting of mail.  I don't know what company
>actually produces the equipment however.  Anyone know?

I have just gotten some information on another chording keyboard company.
It is called The Bat and is produced by a company called Infogrip Inc in
Baton Rouge, LA.  They sell two chording keyboards together (both allow for
generating all the keys of a standard keyboard), so that one hand can be
setting up while the second finishing a chord.

The literature I have describes a serial version, but conversation with the
president of the company elicited that they are building versions for hooking
in as replacement keyboards for IBM compatibles and an ADB version for Macs.