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Subject: Re: Sore joints -- not just (was:) carpal tunnel syndrome
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Date: 22 May 91 09:54:50 EDT
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I haven't heard of the AccuKey keyboard, but I do know of a company called
Infogrip that is making a chord keyboard called the Bat which uses seven keys,
four for the fingers and three for the thumb. They haven't started to ship to
the mass market yet, but soon. I wrote an article about it for TidBITS a while
back, #27 to be precise, and here's the phone number. Infogrip - 504-336-0033.
It's worth calling - you'll talk to the president, Ward Bond, and he's a nice
guy.

-A-Adam Engst, TidBITS Editor


In article <20080@cs.utexas.edu>,
turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes: 
> -----
> I don't worry about CTS as much as I do the long-term effects
> of repetitive stress to my finger joints.  The keys of the 
> Apple keyboards come to sudden and complete stop right after
> the key is activated.  The results is that after a few hours
> of working, my finger joints are sore.  (Does anyone remember
> the smooth feel of the IBM Selectric typewriter?)
> 
> In last month's Scientific American, there was short article
> on alternate keyboards.  One, called AccuKey, was two keyboards
> for each hand, each having only four keys, so that one's fingers
> never move from its home key, nor begin a strike from midair
> above the key.  Individual characters are formed by combinations.
> Naturally, no pointer was given to the source of such keyboards.
> Does anyone out there have one?
> 
> Russell
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