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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: DEC and Northgate do notebooks
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Date: 29 May 91 21:22:33 GMT
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Two intriguing ads in the 20 May 1991 edition of "PC Week":

  -- Digital Equipment Corporation has a notebook with a built-in mousey
     touch pad, located above the right-hand side of the keyboard.  It
     looks like a nice idea, although there's nothing to rest your palm
     on when "mousing" without depressing keys.  This might be
     fatiguing.

  -- Northgate has a notebook with a keyboard whose key placement looks
     just about right.  The control key is to the left of 'A', there
     are non-shifted PgUp/PgDn/Home/End, there's are shift keys where
     the shift keys belong, there's an inverted-T set of cursor control
     keys.  Alas, no separate mouse port -- you have to use the single
     serial port.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
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