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From: greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: 2 button mouse
Message-ID: <147@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 23:54:14 GMT
References: <1694@bgsuvax.UUCP> <1469@husc2.UUCP> <2452@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <2432@utah-gr.UUCP>
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Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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Keywords: mouse buttons modifier keys
Summary: rodent-free one-handed mouse

In article <2432@utah-gr.UUCP>, fish%kzin.utah.edu.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Russ Fish) writes:
> 
> The idea of putting a one-handed keyboard on a mouse has already occurred to
> Sam Drake, a Mechanical Engineering professor here who works with our Alpha_1
> geometric modeling system.  I saw him building prototype injection moulds last
> year.  
> 
> Getting the human factors right is tough.  He was using 4 buttons for the
> fingers and a pair of shift buttons for the thumb (I think) on a vaguely
> hemispherical mouse housing.

About ten years ago (while I was still a student) I worked for a term at
a Grad School for Educational Studies (OISE in Toronto).  One day, one of
the researchers brought in a hemishperical device called a "Write-hander".
It was a keyboard replacement for one-handed people.  It came in both left
and right-handed models.  It had (I think) three buttons per finger plus
two buttons for the thumb.  It used one-, two-, and three-button combinations
to cover the entire keyboard character set.  It was an actual-honest-to-god
commercial product, but I have never seen (nor heard of) it again.


Greg Yachuk		Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA	(415) 322-4100
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So, like, uh, where do you guys get all these way cool .sig's, anyways?