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From: rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Rick Brink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: carpal tunnel syndrome keyboard
Message-ID: <1991May16.153326.10032@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 15:33:26 GMT
References: <1991May15.202316.11588@ncsu.edu>
Organization: Clemson University
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From article <1991May15.202316.11588@ncsu.edu>, by dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Daniel Carr):
> 
> can some kind soul direct me to information on a keyboard that looks
> like it it's broken down the middle.  it's supposed to be less
> detrimental to people with carpal tunnel syndrome.  
> 
> i thought i saw it listed in the "new products" section of macworld, but
> i could not find it.
> 
> "thankyou thankyou" -- L.C.
> 
> -----
> Daniel Carr - North Carolina State University 
> internet:  daniel_carr@ncsu.edu
> bitnet:    DANIEL@NCSUVM

I saw the designer of that keyboard on "Computer Chronicle" a few months
ago.  The product looks good.  But, (isn't there always one?) he has been
having problems finding a production facility for it.  He insists it be
manufactured in the USA, and none of the companies he's approached are too
interested.

Personally, I'd be delighted to get my hands on one.  I'm large (fat to you
skinny people) and find the angle of my wrists makes them ach.  I'd love to
get one BEFORE I get carple tunnel.  My mother has it, and it is not some-
thing to be taken lightly.  Even after the surgery, her hands are numb most
of the time, and anything that requires much control (sewing for example) is
nearly impossible.  She has difficulty writing.

I hope the industry gets us some help. I worry more about CTS than ELF.  I
know keyboards cause it.  The experts are still arguing about ELF.  It
probably is a problem, but industry should give us solutions for proven
problems...

rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu