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From: clark@sssinc.COM (G. Clark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Want information on "odd" keyboard.
Summary: One-hander
Message-ID: <272@sssinc.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 88 14:53:45 GMT
References: <1553@gmu90x.UUCP>
Organization: Structured Software Solutions, Inc., Dallas
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In article <1553@gmu90x.UUCP>, dana@gmu90x.UUCP (J Dana Eckart) writes:
> Some number of years ago (8?) I remember seeing an announcement for a
> keyboard that consisted of two separate hemi-spherical parts, one for
> the left hand and one for the right.  The idea seemed to be that the
...
> Does anyone remember something fitting this description?  Are keyboards
> like this still around?  What was the final verdict?  Better than 
> conventional keyboards?  Worse?

I saw a keyboard made for one hand called the "One-hander", I think.  It
was a sphere with four thumb keys and two rows of four keys for the fingers.
It could generate the range of ascii by pressing more than one key at a
time.  I haven't seen anything about it in a long time.

Clark